Massage parlors offering a wide variety of illegal sexual services are, as we’ve detailed in the past, common in the District of Columbia. In turn, investigating such parlors is hardly new territory for the undercover units of the Metropolitan Police Department. But are undercover cops getting a little too close for comfort while covertly soliciting sex workers? A report in the Washington Times suggests they might be.

View Larger Map The crazy crime story of the day award goes to the Examiner’s Scott McCabe, who lays out the rather unbelievable tale of a suspected armed robber who held up an alleged brothel in upper Columbia Heights earlier this month. The robber got away with a bunch of cash, but was later caught by police because, get this, they had his thumb. The suspect, Bryan Perez, 22, had his thumb cut off during…