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  • Crime History: Two-year FBI probe finds 'Louie Louie' unintelligible

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

    On this day, May 17, in 1965, after a nearly two-year investigation, the FBI Laboratory declared the lyrics of "Louie Louie" to be unintelligible. The Kingsmen's 1963 cover about a Jamaican sailor who missed his girlfriend had caused a countrywide panic. Rumors spread that the incoherent...

  • Police use Taser on naked man, charge him with shooting friend

    Naomi Jagoda

    Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

    A Montgomery County man was arrested in Prince George's County after he shot a childhood friend, took off his clothes, climbed onto a firetruck while naked and was shot with a Taser by police, authorities said. Mohamed S. Bah, 24, was charged with attempted murder, assault and other offenses....

  • Estranged spouses dead in Prince George's murder-suicide

    Naomi Jagoda

    Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

    A 47-year-old man shot in his estranged wife and then took his own life in Prince George's County, police said. According to a preliminary investigation, Jason Taffe, of Silver Spring, went to the home of his 41-year-old estranged wife, Denise Taffe, in the 7700 block of Pinewood Drive in...

  • D.C. overnight shootings injure 3 men

    Naomi Jagoda

    Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

    Two separate shootings in the District overnight left a total of three men injured, police said. The first shooting took place shortly before midnight in the 800 block of Buchanan Street NW, which is near Sherman Circle. A man told police that he was walking when the assailant emerged from...

  • 'John Doe' arrested in child pornography case after manhunt

    Naomi Jagoda

    Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

    A man charged in federal court in the District with producing child pornography was arrested Wednesday afternoon following what authorities called a "nationwide manhunt." The man, dubbed "John Doe" in court papers, was arrested after a tipster called U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement....

  • The Blotter for May 16

    Scott McCabe and Naomi Jagoda

    Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

    $8.6m awarded in deadly P.G. stabbing A Prince George's County jury has awarded $8.6 million to the family of a man who was fatally stabbed at a club in Forestville, but the verdict may be merely symbolic. The jury found that the CFE Event Center failed to provide adequate security the night...

  • Fourth man arrested in case of body found in burning vehicle

    Naomi Jagoda

    Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

    A fourth man has been arrested in connection with the 2011 slaying of a Capitol Heights man whose body was found in a burning vehicle. Jermaine Livingston, 41, of Southeast D.C., was arrested Tuesday and charged with second-degree murder in the death of 34-year-old Antwain Henderson, D.C....

  • University Park burglary suspect sought

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

    Prince George's County police have a photo of a suspect in a burglary of a home in University Park, and they are asking the public to help identify him. On Tuesday, police officers responded to the 6500 block of 43rd Avenue in University Park for a breaking-and-entering call, in which several...