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  • The Blotter for May 8

    Scott McCabe and Naomi Jagoda

    Updated: Tue, May 7, 2013

    D.C. cop accused of money laundering for drug dealer A District of Columbia police officer has been charged in a federal money laundering investigation in Pennsylvania. Jared Weinberg was arrested Monday at the Fourth District station on Georgia Avenue in upper Northwest D.C., where he...

  • Cold Case: Lyon sisters went missing in Montgomery County in 1975

    Naomi Jagoda

    Published: Tue, May 7, 2013

    It's been 38 years since two young Montgomery County sisters disappeared. On the morning of March 25, 1975, 12-year-old Sheila Lyon and 10-year-old Katherine Lyon walked from their Kensington home to the Wheaton Plaza shopping center in order to have lunch at the Orange Bowl restaurant....

  • The Blotter

    Scott McCabe and Naomi Jagoda

    Published: Mon, May 6, 2013

    Driver killed on ATV was not wearing helmet A 23-year-old Hyattsville man was killed when he was thrown from an all-terrain vehicle in Southeast Washington. According to D.C. police, at about 6 p.m. Sunday, Michael Allen Brown was riding on a 2005 Yamaha four-wheel off-road vehicle in a...

  • Arlington police seek man who robbed BB&T bank

    Naomi Jagoda

    Published: Mon, May 6, 2013

    Arlington County police and the FBI are trying to identify the man who robbed a BB&T bank Monday morning. The incident occurred at about 9:20 a.m. at the BB&T branch on the 900 block of North Taylor Street, near the Ballston Metro station. The robber entered the bank and passed a...

  • Man killed, others injured in violent night in the District

    Naomi Jagoda

    Published: Mon, May 6, 2013

    A 29-year-old man was fatally shot in Northeast D.C. in one of several violent incidents that occurred Sunday night and early Monday morning, police said. About 6:40 p.m. Sunday, police went to the 4100 block of 20th Street Northeast for the report of an unconscious person inside a vehicle....

  • Police ID man killed in Southeast D.C. shooting

    Naomi Jagoda

    Published: Mon, May 6, 2013

    D.C. police have identified a man who was fatally shot early Sunday morning as 21-year-old Alvin Allen Jr. of Southeast Washington. Allen, another man and a boy were found with gunshot wounds in the 3400 block of Stanton Road SE at about 2:50 a.m. Sunday. The three victims were taken to...

  • Man found with heroin at Dulles gets 4 years in prison

    Naomi Jagoda

    Published: Sun, May 5, 2013

    A Tanzanian man who was caught with about seven pounds of heroin in his suitcase at Washington Dulles International Airport has been sentenced to four years in prison, according to court records. Omar Mohammad Omar, 40, pleaded guilty to importing heroin in February and was sentenced recently...

  • D.C. murder conviction overturned over coercive jury instruction

    Naomi Jagoda

    Published: Sat, May 4, 2013

    The D.C. Court of Appeals has overturned a man's murder conviction, finding that the trial judge had given a coercive instruction to the jury. Delonte C. Fortune had been convicted of second-degree murder and other charges for the 2005 shooting death of Lamont Watkins. In reversing Fortune's...

  • Police seek information about sexual assault near Silver Spring post office

    Naomi Jagoda

    Published: Sat, May 4, 2013

    Montgomery County police are seeking information about the sexual assault of a 21-year-old postal worker in Silver Spring. Shortly after 2:30 p.m. Friday, police went to the post office located at 110 University Boulevard W. The victim told police that she was walking in the neighborhood...

  • Top Cop: Montgomery County police officer honored for arrests

    Naomi Jagoda

    Published: Sat, May 4, 2013

    In the past few months, Montgomery County police Officer Andrew Suh has been involved in several arrests. Suh arrested a bank robbery suspect on Jan. 28 after he found the man covered in red paint from the dye pack that had exploded as he left a Wheaton bank. The suspect, Joseph Urrutia, had...