A Department of Labor attorney charged with assaulting a co-worker in a violent attack at her Northwest home was found dead with his throat slit at the D.C. Jail early Tuesday — the day after his preliminary hearing in court.
A woman charged with stealing an 8-week-old kitten from a Washington Humane Society adoption center told police she was taking the feline for her kids, according to court documents.
A witness who helped convict a man in the 2001 murder of Chandra Levy lied during the trial when he testified he had never previously provided information to law enforcement in other criminal cases, attorneys revealed in court Tuesday.
Authorities have made an agreement not to prosecute a Northwest D.C. man who used his unregistered handgun to shoot and kill a pit bull in order to stop it from mauling a child in his neighborhood.
Defense attorneys for the man convicted of killing Chandra Levy in 2001 asked a judge on Thursday to compel prosecutors to turn over an audio tape of a 911 call previously not made available to them about a "blood-curdling scream" in the former federal intern's apartment building the morning she disappeared.
A Florida man arrested at the U.S. Capitol after police found three unregistered guns in his car claimed he was helping to take down Osama bin Laden's terror network and had the guns for protection, according to court documents made available Monday.
A Ward 8 case manager with the D.C. Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services has been served with a notice of removal and is being criminally charged with "unlawful disclosure of juvenile records," according to documents obtained by The Washington Times.
A receipt for a prepaid cellphone, a firearms safety-course certificate and a very particular type of ammunition are among the clues that led authorities to charge a 65-year-old Silver Spring woman with first-degree murder in the shooting of her cousin.
