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May 24, 2013 | 10:44 AM
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  • Stupid Crimes: Killer caught after butt-dialing 911

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

    Butt-dial M for Murder A Florida man accidently called 911 and recorded his plans for murder before the victim was fatally shot. According to the Miami Herald, Scott Simon decided to shoot Nicholas Walker after arguing with him at a nearby Waffle House. Broward County Sheriff's Office...

  • The Blotter: Carjacked Mercedes strikes D.C. school bus head-on

    Scott McCabe and Naomi Jagoda

    Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

    Carjacked Mercedes hits school bus A carjacked vehicle that Prince George's County police were pursuing crashed into a school bus in Southeast D.C., police said. About 7:30 a.m. Thursday, police received a call about a carjacking of a Mercedes in District Heights by two men wearing ski masks...

  • Prominent swim coach faces sentencing for child sex abuse

    Scott McCabe

    Updated: 16 hr ago

    Rick Curl, whose Northern Virginia swim club has produced several Olympians, is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday for sexually abusing a child he coached more than 25 years ago. Curl, 63, faces up to 15 years in prison and will have to register as a sex offender, according to the Montgomery...

  • Crime History: Gunmen execute 5 in 'Wendy's Massacre'

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

    On this day, May 24, in 2000, five employees of a Wendy's restaurant in New York were killed and two seriously wounded during a robbery. The killings were dubbed the "Wendy's Massacre." John B. Taylor, a former employee at the Queens fast-food restaurant, herded the seven workers into a...

  • Another arrest, suspect sought in D.C. drive-by that injured 13

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

    D.C. police have made another arrest and are looking for another suspect in the drive-by shooting that wounded 13 people in the resurgent NoMa neighborhood. Twenty-year-old Keith Deangelo Bobb of Northeast D.C. is wanted for assault with intent to kill and conspiracy to commit a crime of...

  • Former nanny gets 8½ years for killing infant at Quantico

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

    A former nanny was sentenced to 8½ years in prison for the murder of an infant at her home on the U.S. Marine Corps base in Quantico. Amy Hunter, 27, pleaded guilty in federal court in Alexandria in January to second-degree murder in the death of the 9-month-old girl, identified in court...

  • Basketball-playing teen stabbed near Silver Spring park

    Scott McCabe

    Updated: 20 hr ago

    Montgomery County police are investigating a stabbing of a teenager who had been playing basketball at Silver Spring park. Around 6:40 p.m. Monday, two men approached a 17-year-old at Stonegate Park and tried to engage him in a conversation. The victim became scared and began to leave. The men...

  • 'Armed and dangerous' fugitive eludes authorities

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

    U.S. Marshals are looking for a fugitive with a violent history who has disappeared after they say he violated his parole on a robbery charge. Kinshasa Reddock, 28, was serving out a sentence for beating up and robbing a customer outside a Chinese restaurantin the 1900 block of Third Street in...

  • The Blotter: New evidence unveiled in Chandra Levy case

    Scott McCabe and Naomi Jagoda

    Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

    New evidence unveiled in Chandra Levy case Defense lawyers in the Chandra Levy murder case say they weren't made aware of evidence about a key witness that could help prove their client did not kill the former federal intern. In documents made public Tuesday, lawyers for Ingmar Guandique...

  • Suspect in D.C. killings captured in yearlong manhunt

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

    A 29-year-old District man wanted in connection with two separate murders, including the killing of his girlfriend in front of their children, has been arrested in Pennsylvania. Reynard Cook was captured near State College over the weekend, nearly one year to the day that his girlfriend was...