Rodney King was arrested Tuesday in southern California on suspicion of driving under the influence. King was pulled over and arrested after committing several traffic violations, Moreno Valley officers said. King’s 1991 traffic arrest and beating by four Los Angeles police officers became national news, and subsequently shaped America’s conversation on police brutality. He was […]
Nine people, including three Prince George’s County police officers, were arrested Monday on charges involving drugs, guns, and black-market alcohol and cigarettes as authorities ratcheted up a sprawling corruption probe in the county. Federal agents conducted numerous searches across the county and moved to seize more than 30 homes, businesses and vehicles as part of […]
Federal agents arrested Prince George’s County Executive Jack Johnson and his wife, county councilmember-elect Leslie Johnson, after raiding Johnson’s home and offices on Friday. Federal agents executed 13 search warrants today as part of a far-ranging, two-year investigation into corruption in Prince George’s County government related to land and housing deals, according to a federal […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: A 46-year-old District woman has been charged with using slain principal Brian Betts’s credit cards over the past several days and authorities have issued an arrest warrant charging a second person with Betts’s murder, police and law enforcement sources said. The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation […]
Actor Danny Glover and 11 others were arrested during a labor union protest at the Maryland headquarters of Sodexo, a food service company. Glover and others walked past yellow police tape and were asked to step back three times at Sodexo headquarters. When they refused, Montgomery County police officers arrested them. The dozen were issued […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: A Montgomery County man is being held without bond on attempted carjacking and other charges after police say he tried to steal a Honda Civic from a 78-year-old woman walking with a cane — an endeavor that got him attacked by a group of citizens. Javier Gonzalez-Mena, 27, escaped from the […]
VIA WJLA: D.C. police have made an arrest in the shooting death of 9-year-old Oscar Fuentes, a Metropolitan Police spokesperson confirmed. Law enforcement sources identified the suspect as Josue Pena, 26. He was arrested on Drexel Street in Hyattsville just before 6 a.m. Tuesday, the sources said. Oscar was shot to death in his family’s […]
