(Washington, DC) — Metro has seen the year 2009 bring about a spike in the number of robberies around the system. The first eight-months of the year have seen a more than 40% increase in the number of robberies. “The DC Examiner” reports since 2005, it’s a 179% increase. The most non-vehicle-related crimes have happened […]

VIA WASHINGTON POST: A District police officer traded gunfire with would-be carjackers in Prince George’s County Sunday in the second such incident in the county in less than a week, Prince George’s police said. The off-duty police officer involved in Sunday’s incident in Capitol Heights was not hurt. It was not clear whether he wounded […]

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VIA MYFOXDC: CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Md. – Police are investigating a deadly shooting in Prince George’s County. It happened around 9:30 p.m. Thursday night on Walker Mill Road in Capitol Heights. Police say a man was found suffering from a gun shot wound and was pronounced dead at the hospital a short time later. Police do […]

VIA WUSA: WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA) — Metropolitan Police are investigating the shootings of three men that occurred hours apart Sunday in the same area of Lincoln Heights, NE. Police and fire officials said a 19-year-old man suffered gunshot wounds to the leg, back and arm at 4:30 p.m. in the 400 block of 50th Street. […]

VIA WJLA: Baltimore police say a Johns Hopkins University medical student armed with a samurai sword killed an intruder he discovered in his garage. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says campus police and an off-duty city officer responding to a call for a suspicious person heard screams to call police around 1:20 a.m. Tuesday in the […]

VIA WUSA: SILVER SPRING, Md. (WUSA) – Police in Montgomery County are looking for any leads that could help solve an overnight homicide at a Silver Spring apartment complex. Lt. Paul Starks, spokesperson for Montgomery County Police, tells 9NEWS NOW officers from the 3rd District responded to a report of the sound of gunshots at […]

(Washington, DC) — A teenager is charged as an adult in connection with the deadly shooting of a Northwest Washington woman. DC Police have arrested 17-year-old Devonte Carlton of Northwest in the murder of 48-year-old Deborah Brown last Saturday evening in the 2900 block of 14th Street. DC Police Chief Cathy Lanier says this type […]

VIA WJLA: WASHINGTON – The Rhode Island Avenue-Brentwood Metro Station in Northeast is already among the top 10 most dangerous stations in the region. Authorities now say a recent rash of violence is proving why. Metro Transit Police says at least 17 assaults and robberies have been reported there this year. “I believe it’s number […]

VIA WJLA: WASHINGTON, D.C. – FBI officials say the number of carjackings in Washington is declining this year. Officials say there have been about 200 carjackings so far this year in the city, compared with about 600 for all of 2008. Joseph Persichini Jr., assistant director of the FBI’s Washington field office, credits a joint […]

(Washington, DC) — A George Washington University graduate student is recovering after he was attacked by a group of men Friday night. At least 12 people jumped the 28-year-old man as he waited for a bus at the corner of Pennsylvania and 24th Street in Northwest Washington. Police say the men were laughing as they […]