Despite the still treacherous streets and sidewalks, roughly 75 people showed up last night at Options Public Charter School to hear more about the city’s response to the recent spate of carjackings on Capitol Hill, with a focus on those in PSA 103. Councilmember Wells, ANC Commissioner 6A05 Mary Beatty, Chief Lanier, and other police […]
As we’ve written about three times here at THIH, there has been a rash of carjackings in the area. According to police, the increase in car thefts with deadly weapons is up city-wide, but the crimes have hit especially close to home in the last three weeks, as chronicled yesterday by the Washington Post. Photo […]
The recent spate of carjackings, many occurring in PSA 103 between 12th and 14th Streets, NE, and E and F Streets, NE, have started to alarm Hill residents who think this is more of an epidemic than a run of bad luck. The incidents have also disturbed some parents of young children as some of […]
December has begun with the usual rash of auto thefts and shoplifting in MPD-1; and sadly, teen violence seems to be continuing on Capitol Hill. On Tuesday, a group of about six teens, suspected to be students, assaulted a man at 6th and G Streets, NE, and knocking him to the ground in an attempt to rummage […]
For those of you who subscribe to the Police Department’s First District listserv, you may already know that two juveniles were arrested last Friday in at least some degree of connection with the rock throwing incident that I first wrote about two weeks ago. I’m personally grateful to the timely intervention of two MPD officers, […]