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Have others noticed an increase helicopters circling?. RT asks around 11:20pm last night: “Helicopters circling in NOMA area??”. Jeremy also writes just before 11pm: “For at least the third night in a row, U.S. Park Police is flying around DC (not unheard of, but not exactly common esp. at night), and is now joined...

A man was arrested Tuesday in connection with an assault that took place in Northeast D.C. in May.

WASHINGTON, DC.- The D.C. Metropolitan Police Department is asking for the public’s assistance in identifying and locating a man wanted in connection with a stabbing that occurred last Thursday on 7th Street in Northwest, D.C. According to D.C. Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela A. Smith, on Thursday, August 7, 2025,...

Thank you for reading D.C. Witness. Consider making a donation to help us continue our mission. In a courtroom awash with emotion, DC Superior Court Judge Michael Ryan sentenced a murder defendant for killing his girlfriend to 24 years in prison on Aug. 8. Mario Banegas Deras, 43, pleaded guilty...

WASHINGTON (7News) — Thursday night, federal officers made contact with Meghann Abraham. Her tent, set up near Washington Circle, had already been tagged by D.C.'s Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services with a notice that it will be cleared. "They said I had until August...

Phillip Todd, a 26-year-old aide to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), was stabbed four times on a busy street in Northeast Washington in March 2023. The attack — carried out by 44-year-old Glynn Neal, released from prison just a day earlier — left Todd with severe injuries, including a punctured brain membrane that required...

Washington, DC – A man accused of repeatedly targeting the same CVS in Northwest was arrested this week after allegedly breaking into a building and assaulting an officer during his… The post CVS bandit caught after scuffle with cops in DC first appeared on Shore News Network .

The streets of Washington, D.C., are a little safer following a week-long effort by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) to recover illegal firearms. According to a recent release by the MPD, from July 21 to July 27, 2025, the department's detectives and officers confiscated 60 firearms across the District. These...

Police shared surveillance photos of two suspects in an armed carjacking that took place in Northeast.

Thanks to Nathaniel for sharing the photo above with us around 9:40pm Wednesday night:. “Police stopping people on 14th Street in Northwest DC as a crowd of onlookers chant in opposition.”. Another reader sends a photo from 14th and W Street, NW said to have started around 9:10pm: