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Officer injured in NE motel fire
A police officer received minor injuries Sunday while trying to rescue guests from a burning Northeast motel, according to the D.C. fire department.
A department spokesman said the midday fire started in a second-floor room of the Downtown Motel, in the 1300 block of Fourth Street. He also said that the officer was in the area and that he was taken to a hospital for smoke inhalation.
Two rooms were damaged, but the motel reopened. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Man arrested in armed robbery
A D.C. man has been arrested over the weekend in connection with an armed robbery in the U Street corridor and possible others in Northwest, the Metropolitan Police Department said Sunday.
Curtis Lee, 25, of Northeast, was arrested Friday night after two men reported that a man demanded money from them at gunpoint in the 2200 block of 12th Street Northwest.
Mr. Lee was found attempting to hide in the restroom of a business at the 1100 block of U Street Northwest.
The arrest came as the police department increased patrols in nearby Adams Morgan, after a recent string of robberies.
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