DC police warn of online selling platform risks after armed carjacking during offline meetup

Authorities are warning about the risks of using online platforms to set up meetings to buy and sell after they arrested a woman they say stole a vehicle at gunpoint during an offline meetup to conduct a business transaction.

Woman shot in head outside northeast DC business

A woman was hospitalized after she was shot in the head outside of a business in northeast D.C.

Police identify DC teens shot, killed in weekend violence

D.C. police have identified two teenagers and a 38-year-old man who were shot and killed in a string of violent weekend shootings in the District.

2 arrested after 3 shot in Leesburg: police

Authorities say two people have been arrested after three people were wounded in a shooting Thursday night in Loudoun County.

Suspect accused of striking man with metal baton at Woodbridge gas pump arrested

Authorities have arrested the person they say brandished a firearm and attacked a man with a retractable metal baton last week at a Virginia gas pump.

Off-duty DC police officer shot at; first suspect appears in court

One of two men accused of ambushing an off-duty D.C. police officer on Monday made his first court appearance Friday afternoon. 

Man killed in southeast DC shooting

Authorities say a man is dead after a shooting in southeast Washington.

Virginia father detained in Turks and Caicos for stray ammo pleads guilty

A Virginia man has pleaded guilty to one count of possession of ammunition in Turks and Caicos (TCI) after airport security found stray bullets in his luggage as he prepared to fly home last month.

‘Criminal enterprise’ from other states robbing Fairfax retail stores: officials

Investigators say they are seeing an increase in people traveling from out of state to rob Fairfax stores and returning to their home states hundreds of miles away.

1 killed in District Heights shooting

Authorities are continuing their search for a gunman after a man was killed, and two other people were hurt following a shooting in Prince George’s County.

DC CRIMES Act passes House, threatening local sentencing reforms

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the D.C. CRIMES Act (HR 7530) on Wednesday afternoon, a move that would limit D.C.'s ability to modify its sentencing laws.