According to both the Post and City Paper, Ward 7 D.C. Council hopeful Kevin Chavous, Jr. was arrested late last week for allegedly soliciting a prostitute. more ›

For everyone who was wondering why federal prosecutors were taking their sweet time in going after Councilmember Harry Thomas, Jr. (D-Ward 5) for steering $300,000 of city funds to himself, the wait may be over -- WTOP's Mark Segraves reported that the FBI is searching his home and car this morning. more ›

This morning, a man was arrested inside the Occupy DC encampment at McPherson Square after he was found to have stolen supplies from the group's supply tent. more ›

UPDATE (4:30 p.m.): The AP reports now that the accused is a man, but that the U.S. Attorney’s office is not planning on filing charges against him at this time. more ›

Keith Silver, a Ward 6 ANC commissioner who was arrested during an April 18 D.C. voting rights protest on Capitol Hill, was found not guilty of a single charge of failing to obey a lawful order this afternoon. more ›

Rodney McIntyre, who pled guilty to brutally murdering his 17-year-old daughter Ebony Franklin in July, has been sentenced to 40 years in prison. more ›

In May, two Metro Transit Police officers were caught on video forcefully restraining and arresting a man outside the U Street Metro station. That wasn't enough evidence for federal investigators, however. more ›

As quietly as Bart Turner was arrested, his case was dismissed. Today in D.C. Superior Court, a single charge of "Unlawful Entry" against Turner -- a Ward 2 resident and former D.C. public school teacher who was arrested on April 18 during a one-man D.C. voting rights demonstration on the steps of the U.S. Capitol -- was dismissed by prosecutors. more ›

The MPD's war on graffiti continues -- over the weekend, the Fourth District and Fifth District Vice Office of the Metropolitan Police Department announced that it, in association with personnel from a U.S. Marshalls Task Force, had arrested five suspects, at least four of which are allegedly members of the Krazy Graf Brothers, or KGB, graffiti crew. more ›

Earlier this morning, Brown was arrested in the District for driving on a suspended Maryland license. more ›

Daryl Hannah -- you know, the mermaid from Splash -- was arrested in front of the White House this afternoon. more ›

Last month, we reported on an incident in Adams Morgan where two cyclists, Ian Barry and Saul Leiken, were involved in a late-night collision with a driver at the intersection of 18th Street and Columbia Road NW. Police have now arrested the man who allegedly hit Barry. more ›

Yesterday, we reported on the arrest of Asad ULTRA Walker, a street artist that police allege goes by the moniker "MAR5" and one MPD Sergeant called "a leader and founding member of the 'KGB' graffiti crew that dates back to at least the early 90s." Our report noted that Walker was scheduled to lead a lettering workshop as part of a series of summer workshops hosted by the D.C. Public Library today. That's no longer the case. more ›

This morning, news came that District police had arrested Asad ULTRA Walker, a street artist that police allege goes by the moniker "MAR5", on Sunday morning. more ›

One week. That's how long it took Terry Allen Jimenez, arrested and charged with second-degree murder for allegedly shooting and killing an innocent man last Saturday, to get back into trouble in D.C. after he left town for safety reasons. more ›

D.C. police announced this morning that they had arrested 19-year-old Terry Jiminez, a resident of Buffalo, New York, in connection with a shooting incident that left one dead and three injured in Columbia Heights Saturday afternoon. more ›

When two journalists were arrested at a D.C. Taxicab Commission hearing yesterday, many residents, officials and open government advocates were quick to express disgust and question how exactly such heavy-handed actions could take place at a meeting that was otherwise open to the press and public. The questions were even more pressing because it was just two months ago that a strengthened open meetings law went into effect in the District. more ›

If there's any place that probably needs as much sunshine as it can get, it's the D.C. Taxicab Commission. But during a hearing today, two journalists were ejected, handcuffed and detained for a number of hours for doing little more than reporting on the proceedings. more ›

"Remember when that guy purposely hit me with his car, and then tried to run away but got caught?" That's how the best story we've read all day begins. more ›

The woman who created a chaotic scene at the Rockville Metrorail station this morning was reportedly aiming to set off an explosion at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Rockville. more ›

Earlier this week, we wrote about the difficulties police are facing patrolling the Metropolitan Branch Trail, an eight-mile route between Union Station and Silver Spring which has been the scene of several attempted assaults and robberies in recent weeks. Last night, police say that another incident occurred -- but an arrest was made on the scene. more ›

Dwight Harris, the man who was videotaped being forced from his wheelchair and bloodied by Metro Transit Police along U Street in May, was supposed to appear before a judge on Friday on misdemeanor assault charges. That won't be necessary now, though: all criminal charges against Harris have been dropped. more ›

This morning, Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier announced that the department has made an arrest for the murder of 15-year-old Isaiah Harris. 26-year-old Eugene Kelly, a District resident, was taken into custody by a task force on Wednesday night and will possibly appear in court as early as today. more ›

Oh, so you thought that the arrest of several people who were dancing inside the Jefferson Memorial on Saturday afternoon would be the end of the whole brouhaha? Think again: the same group of people who put together the original demonstration are planning an even bigger display of civil disobedience this weekend -- and over 1,800 people say they'll attend. more ›

It was a rough weekend for former D.C. alcohol control board chair Charles Brodsky -- first, he resigned from his position on Friday, then he was arrested on Saturday. more ›

The videotaped altercation between Dwight Harris and two transit police officers who appeared to violently restrain him outside the U Street Metro station last week has led to dropped charges and discipline for the officers involved. more ›

Yesterday, Rodney James McIntyre, the father of slain 17-year-old Ebony Franklin, appeared in court, where several incredibly gruesome details -- including an admission that he had given Franklin "a bottle of his semen" to try and get pregnant -- were revealed. more ›

The man accused of resisting arrest during an altercation with transit police which was caught on tape outside the U Street Metro station is now speaking out. more ›

Nearly 6 months ago, MPD made the gruesome discovery of the body of 17-year-old Ebony Franklin in a dumpster in the ally of the 1000 block of Fairmont Street NW. Now, they have arrested Rodney James McIntyre, Ebony Franklin's father, for her murder. Ebony was stabbed 17 times. more ›

U.S. Marshals took Metro employee Ronald W. Taylor into custody at the Cheverly Metro station this morning on charges stemming from a 2008 bus crash which killed a California man in Foggy Bottom. more ›