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DC attorney general demands release of report probing DC crime lab 12/10/2021 09:30am • D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine is calling on the mayor's office to immediately turn over a report probing the District's troubled crime lab, or he will "invoke legal processes to obtain it." D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser hired forensic consulting firm SNA International in late May to complete a "to Genetic genealogy helps Prince George’s County solve 2017 killing 12/08/2021 01:36pm • In Prince George's County, Maryland, DNA technology has helped investigators find the man responsible for the 2017 murder of 26-year-old Matthew Mickens-Murray. On Tuesday, Brandon Biagas, 23, of Waldorf, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Mickens-Murray, who was found stabbed Special Police officer shoots suspect, himself in DC 12/08/2021 01:16pm • A D.C. Special Police officer shot himself and a suspect in Southeast D.C. on Monday, the D.C. police said. The police said in a statement that the suspect, Tyshawn Wilson, 30, of Southeast D.C., has also been accused of hitting another special police officer with his car. On Monday at about 8 Senate votes to override Hogan’s veto of parole reform bill, more than a dozen other measures 12/06/2021 04:26pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. The Maryland Senate voted to override Republican Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr.’s veto of a bill that removes the governor’s office from par Maryland man faces federal charges for selling fraudulent COVID-19 cards through the mail 12/04/2021 02:25pm • A Maryland man has been charged after he allegedly sent fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination cards through the mail, according to authorities. A criminal complaint was filed charging Amar Salim Shabazz, 23, of Owings Mills, for the federal charges of mail fraud and obstruction of justice in connection Montgomery Co. man arrested on child pornography charges 12/03/2021 03:45pm • A Gaithersburg, Maryland, man has been arrested and charged with possession of child pornography, among other charges, police said Friday. Kevin Lewis Long, 51, was arrested Friday morning following a nearly year-long investigation by the Maryland State Police Internet Crimes Against Children Tas Retired judge and former First Lady Katie O’Malley to run for Md. attorney general 12/01/2021 11:07pm • Katie Curran O’Malley (D), a recently retired judge and a former first lady of Maryland, launched her bid for state Attorney General on Wednesday. (Screenshot of O'Malley campaign video) This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for M African Leaders Must Take the Lead on an African Crisis 12/01/2021 07:00pm • Last month, the president of Uganda called on leaders of East African Community (EAC) countries to convene to forge a common position on the situation in Ethiopia. The summit is a critical one: with 2 million displaced in just a year, and 400, 000 now living in famine, Ethiopia's civil war is on tra DC teen arrested at Eastern High School, charged with killing in Va. 12/01/2021 04:09pm • A Northeast D.C. teenager was arrested Wednesday at Eastern High School and charged with murder in the killing of a man in October on Virginia's Eastern Shore. The 15-year-old was a fugitive from justice from Accomack County, Virginia, where he lived at the time he was involved in the killing of Man guilty of 2018 Greenbelt murder sentenced to life plus 10 years 12/01/2021 07:53am • Tavon Barnes, the now-20-year-old assailant behind the 2018 murder of Abdul K. Thomas in Greenbelt, Maryland, has been sentenced to life in prison, plus 10 years, for his crimes. More Prince George's County News More Crime News State's Attorney Aisha Braveboy said in a stateme Man arrested after St. Mary's Co. mother, daughter found buried in shallow grave 11/27/2021 08:32am • A man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a mother and daughter in St. Mary's County, Maryland, who were found buried in a shallow grave, according to the county's sheriff's Office. Martina Lynn Patterson, 37, and Lyneasha Justice Greenwell, 6, both of Lexington Park, were found de Father and son charged in Leesburg bank robbery, multicounty car chase 11/23/2021 04:39am • A father and son who were arrested following a miles-long car chase through Northern Virginia were charged Monday in connection to a bank robbery in Loudoun County. Leesburg police say 65-year-old Kenneth W. Sencindiver of Winchester is charged with one count of robbery and one count of the use o 2 men charged in decades-old Arlington homicide 11/19/2021 10:40am • Twenty-three years after 52-year-old Andrea Cincotta was found dead in an Arlington, Virginia, apartment bedroom she shared with her fiance, that man and another have been charged in her death. James Christopher Johnson, 59, of Alexandria, and Bobby Joe Leonard, 53, have been charged in relation 2 DC men indicted on federal drug charges 11/18/2021 08:10am • Two men from D.C. have been indicted on federal drug charges for an Ivy City operation where they allegedly sold fentanyl and heroin, according to the Justice Department. Nathaniel Scruggs, 37, and Andrew Cooper, 46, were arrested on Nov. 10. More D.C. News More Crime News FBI launches new campaign amid hate crime spike 11/13/2021 06:18am • The number of hate crimes reported around the country last year spiked 13%, according to figures made public by the FBI, with a huge increase in the number of attacks directed at one group in particular: African Americans. The FBI is aware that the figure probably doesn't reflect the true number