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Mar 09, 2017

Police Search For Man Who Carjacked A Pizza Delivery Guy In Tenleytown

The incident took place around 12:35 p.m. this afternoon.

May 04, 2016

Police Charge Man Who Hijacked A Metrobus, Killing A Pedestrian

Keith James Loving has been charged with second-degree murder.

Aug 21, 2015

Police: Md. Man Committed A Carjacking 30 Minutes After Getting Out Of Jail

Guaymar R. Cabrera-Hernandez is charged with armed carjacking, armed robbery, and first degree assault.

Dec 30, 2013

Allegedly Carjacked SUV Hits Metrobus In Southwest

Two people were sent to the hospital for minor injuries after a carjacked SUV crashed into a Metrobus in SW D.C. this morning.

Sep 12, 2013

Smash And Grab: Police Searching For Highly Tactical Carjackers

The suspects have reportedly been rear-ending victims and then jumping their car and driving off when they get out to assess the damage. That’s some Gone In Sixty Seconds shit.

Sep 21, 2011

Largo Town Center Parking Garage Crime Getting Creepier

The Largo Town Center Metro station parking lot has been no stranger to crime in the past — but the crimes being committed there appear to be getting more and more creepy.

May 25, 2011

Two Injured In Largo Town Center Shooting

We mentioned it briefly in this morning’s roundup, but now it’s been confirmed: two people were injured during an early-morning carjacking at the Largo Town Center Metro station during which gunshots were fired.

Dec 10, 2010

Carjacking Investigation Snarls Washington Circle Traffic

An investigation into a carjacking snarled traffic near Washington Circle for some time this morning. A MPD spokesperson tells DCist that police responded to a call for a carjacking in the area at 10:29 a.m. — the spokesperson also confirmed that police had made an apprehension in connection with the crime. According to a witness who lives in the neighborhood, a section of K Street NW between 26th Street through the tunnel under the Circle…

Apr 15, 2010

D.C. Police Officer Exaggerated Carjacking Story

Remember the other day when a D.C. police officer said he’d been carjacked in Baltimore? Well, it turns out the whole thing didn’t go down quite the way he said it did. Officer Kevin Carey, who a little Googling reveals is a member of the Fifth District’s vice unit, originally said that a woman and an armed man had stepped in front of his 2009 Dodge Magnum, ordered him out and made off with the…

Dec 03, 2009

Sen. Corker’s Daughter Carjacked Near Verizon Center

Julia Corker, image courtesy corker.senate.gov Julia Corker, the daughter of Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), was carjacked Wednesday night at an intersection near the Verizon Center, WJLA is reporting. Corker was reportedly driving her Chevy Tahoe in D.C.’s Chinatown neighborhood at about 9:30 p.m. last night when a suspect allegedly got her to roll down her window before pulling her out of the car and throwing her to the pavement. Politico has more, noting that…

 
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