A D.C. resident says he stole back his bicycle after it was taken from his friend's porch Sunday night and then posted for sale on Craigslist the following morning. And the vendor who attempted to sell that bike is also listing several other cycles for amounts well below their suggested retail prices. more ›

After a woman in Silver Spring was robbed of her purse and cell phone yesterday, Montgomery County Police are looking for a man who is impersonating one of their own. more ›

Disgraced former Ward 5 councilmember Harry Thomas, Jr. was sentenced to 38 months in prison today for stealing over $350,000 in city funds and using them for a luxury SUV, trips to exotic locales and other personal expenses. more ›

The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the possibility that the murder this week of a 66-year-old tourist in Petworth could be linked to other attacks in the neighborhood, NBC4 reports. more ›

How do you go from a minor infraction to a major felony in one go? An Arlington man shows us how. more ›

A man in the Langdon neighborhood of Northeast D.C. was arrested last weekend on charges he beat his roommate's pet Yorkshire terrier to death, according to a press release from the Washington Humane Society. more ›

The Post has more information on Wednesday's night police raid of a suspected meth lab in Adams Morgan. more ›

A pregnant woman's fetus has died after the mother was stabbed and seriously injured in a home invasion early Thursday morning in the Washington Highlands neighborhood, police said. more ›

Police said a juvenile female was arrested in connection with a stabbing attack last night in Northeast D.C. in which two of the three victims were hospitalized with their injuries, WUSA9 reports. more ›

Nearly 700 people marched through the streets last night in response to recent violent crimes targeting gay and transgender victims. The march garnered the attention of D.C. Council members and D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier. more ›

The chief of the Arlington County Police Department denied today that his officers have to meet monthly arrest and traffic ticket quotas in the wake of a leaked memo suggesting that is in fact the case. more ›

A 35-year-old man who was out celebrating at party marking the closing of a Brookland night club early Sunday morning was killed after being stabbed multiple times. more ›

The Metropolitan Police Department said at a press conference Thursday evening it is making headway in investigations of three recent violent crimes in which two victims were gay men and another was a transgender woman. more ›

Yesterday D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier and Mayor Vince Gray announced a number of arrests in connection to thefts of electronic gadgets, which have spiked in 2012. more ›

A Metropolitan Police Department officer was indicted yesterday in connection with an incident last August in which he allegedly fired his service weapon in an altercation that arose from an attempt to solicit sex from a transgender prostitute. more ›

The Deanwood station on the Orange Line and the Anacostia and L'Enfant Plaza stations on the Green Line suffered the most crime in 2011, according to a Metro report being released this week. more ›

Police on the Caribbean island of Nevis have detained a man in connection to the robbery of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer last week, reports CNN. more ›

D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier has been using some creative accounting methods to make it look like police are closing more murder cases than they actually have. more ›

A useful crime-mapping tool hosted by the Metropolitan Police Department will soon be back online after a six-week hiatus, reports the Washington Times. more ›

A report released today by the Justice Policy Institute finds that increased investments in education are a better long-term tool in fighting crime than more police and prisons. more ›

Associate Justice Stephen Breyer was robbed while on vacation in the Caribbean. Crime against the Supreme Court justices isn't without precedent, though. more ›

Prince of Petworth reports that a man was robbed and shot at while walking on the multi-use Metropolitan Branch Trial in Northeast yesterday. more ›

Joining a pair of big-city mayors and another high-ranking civic official yesterday, Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier swapped recent murder and youth crime prevention statistics at a panel during the U.S. Conference of Mayors' winter meeting. more ›

Two Metro workers were arrested last night and face charges of stealing over $150,000 from fare machines, a good chunk of which went towards buying lottery tickets. more ›

Many a movie start this way -- a newborn infant is left on someone's doorstep, most often a loving family that nurtures the child so that it can become a well-rounded adult. But the reality certainly isn't so happy. more ›

WUSA9 is reporting that three people were shot near Ballou High School in the Congress Heights section of Southeast D.C. this morning. more ›

Despite "flash robs" not being much of a problem in the District, Councilmember Phil Mendelson (D-At Large) doesn't want to take any chances. more ›

While the District may have hit its own 50-year low in term of homicides, so did Arlington County -- it had none for the entirety of 2011, writes WJLA. more ›

After two men were stabbed early this morning outside Mood Lounge on Ninth Street NW, Councilmember Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) is calling for the troubled establishment to close. more ›

With only a few days left in 2011, the District is likely to see fewer murders this year than at any point in the last five decades. more ›