Celebrity gossip site TMZ is reporting that White House staffer Kalpen Modi, aka actor Kal Penn, was the victim of an armed robbery somewhere in D.C. early this morning. A mugger allegedly made off with his wallet and other personal property at about 1:20 a.m., according to the site. Not a lot of other details were immediately available. more ›

The Borderstan blog alerts us to what appears to be a string of armed robberies in the past week in their Logan/Dupont/Shaw overlap area. Three different gun-involved muggings have happened along R Street NW between New Hampshire and 13th, and another happened the other night at 11th Street NW and Vermont Ave. We also heard about at least one other armed robbery Thursday night, right around 14th and T Streets NW. Stay alert in the 'Stan this weekend, DCist readers. more ›

D.C. police have released surveillance video of an armed robbery perpetrated on Wednesday, March 11 at 10:24 a.m. p.m. at Metro Wine and Spirits, in the 1700 block of Columbia Road NW. FOX 5 reports that four businesses have been robbed in the same block in the last two weeks: Crumbs and Coffee, Casa Lebrato, and Banco National were all also robbed recently. more ›

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