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Mar 26, 2010

Police Seeking Persons of Interest in Auto Theft With Baby Inside

The Metropolitan Police Department has released a photo of two possible persons of interest in Thursday’s alleged theft of an SUV with a 1-year-old child inside. The infant was eventually found safe and sound inside the vehicle in the 200 block of N Street NW, a few blocks from where the car was taken, near North Capitol and P streets NW, police said. The image was taken from a private security camera on a building…

Mar 25, 2010

Child OK After Car Stolen With Him Inside

Not many straight news stories merit a headline with an exclamation point, but this one just might qualify as an acceptable exception. WTTG/FOX5 reports that a one-year-old child has been recovered safe and sound after the car he was in was stolen off North Capitol Street this morning.The car was left running and unattended by the mother of the child in the driveway of a home on North Capital Street shortly after 7:00 a.m….

Jan 20, 2010

Local Hero Pulled Man from Burning Car

Do read this rather amazing account of how D.C. resident Kevin McDonnell pulled a man from a burning car near the National Cathedral on Sunday, courtesy WaPo reporter Matt Zapotosky.He broke down the trees blocking the man’s door, then pulled him bodily from the car. Flames and smoke hampered his efforts; at one point, McDonnell’s own jacket caught on fire. “Clearly the biggest concern, and why I don’t think anyone else approached the car,…

 
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