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How to avoid credit card skimmers stealing your info and money 10/19/2022 04:46pm • Over the past month, D.C. police have found skimming devices at point of sale card machines at 10 different locations in the city, many of them popping up at local convenience stores in Northwest and Northeast. Those skimmers can pull information and money from debit or credit cards when you swip DC police open new cadet corps training center 10/19/2022 04:13pm • Hiring police officers right now is hard. But D.C. police say the revival of the MPD Cadet Corps program has proven extremely popular, and is providing a new source of recruits who can help fill the ranks of an understaffed department bracing for even more departures in the years to come. Pol Mayor, police chief back updates to DC���s criminal code, but voice concern 10/19/2022 01:48pm • ���There���s some things that need to be done ... to make sure that we get it right,��� D.C. police Chief Robert Contee said Wednesday of an overhaul to the District's criminal code. ���I think it���s more important that we get it right than just get it done." He made the comments during a pres No charges for ride-share driver in Arlington restaurant crash 10/19/2022 01:30pm • Several people were injured when a car crashed into an Arlington, Virginia, restaurant Aug. 12. (WTOP/Dave Dildine) The ride-share driver who crashed into Ireland���s Four Courts pub in Arlington in August, seriously injuring several people, will not face criminal charges. In a brief statemen Insults slung in Anne Arundel debate; Haire and Pittman find they still have plenty to agree upon 10/19/2022 10:18am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP���s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters��� free email subscription today. The election for Anne Arundel County executive is one of the most competitive and consequential in the state this fall, and the stakes were Child found unconscious, shivering outside DC apartment building dies 10/18/2022 09:54pm • A little boy who was found outside last week, alone and unconscious, in a Southwest D.C. neighborhood has died. The 2-year-old, who police have not identified, was found by a passerby around 9 p.m. on Oct. 13 outside the Trinity Plaza apartments on Atlantic Street SW. D.C. police said at the time Person accused of rape in Fairfax County hotel room in custody 10/18/2022 08:10pm • Police in Fairfax County say that the man accused of raping a woman in a Virginia hotel room has been apprehended. Fairfax County police had been looking for the man after receiving a report of a sexual assault on Oct. 1 at a hotel located on the 8600 block of Westwood Center Drive in Vienna. Audit finds 'off the books' account used by vendors to pay Montgomery Co. schools staff 10/18/2022 06:34pm • Nearly a year after Montgomery County, Maryland, police reported they were investigating ���possible financial improprieties��� in the county school system���s transportation department, a new state audit offers details on what generated its investigation. According to the September 2022 report b Md. man accused of armed robberies around Bethesda 10/18/2022 05:29pm • A Silver Spring, Maryland, man has been arrested in connection with a series of armed robberies around Bethesda. Donnell Harris, 29, is accused of eight robberies that have occurred in and around Rosemary Hills Drive, 16th Street and East West Highway since Aug. 10. More Crime News Man charged with 4 murders in Dale City 10/18/2022 03:22pm • A 24-year-old Virginia man faces four counts of second-degree murder after police say he shot a recently married couple, their daughter and another man in Dale City on Monday. "The only word that I can use to describe it is senseless -- absolutely senseless," said Prince William County Police Chi DC police identify 2 victims from triple shooting in Congress Heights 10/18/2022 03:01pm • D.C. police have identified two victims from Monday night's shooting near the Congress Heights Metro Station in Southeast. In a statement, police said 19-year-old Reginald Cooper and 19-year-old Davonte Berkley ��� both of District Heights, Maryland ��� died of their wounds. More DC Ne Grand jury indicts DC ANC commissioner in deadly Va. DUI crash 10/18/2022 11:52am • A Fairfax County, Virginia, grand jury indicted a��D.C. Advisory Neighborhood Commission member for manslaughter in a deadly March drunken driving crash on the Capital Beltway. The jury indicted Devon Lesesne, 32, of D.C., on one count of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Katherine Aileen 1 dead, 2 injured in triple shooting in Congress Heights 10/17/2022 10:57pm • A man is dead and two others are in the hospital after a shooting in Southeast D.C. Monday night. It happened around 8:30 p.m. on Congress Street, just blocks away from the Congress Heights Metro Station, police said. When officers arrived, they found two people with gunshot wounds. One man di Police: Child found inside stolen car in Southeast DC, 1 arrested 10/17/2022 09:29pm • D.C. police have arrested a person who stole a car with a child inside Monday evening. According to police, the suspect took the car on 33rd and Dubois streets in Southeast D.C. just before 6 p.m. The person later drove onto Interstate 295, where the car crashed several times before stopping n 4 found dead in Prince William County home 10/17/2022 08:10pm • Police in Prince William County, Virginia, are investigating a shooting in Dale City that left four people dead in what appears to be a "domestic" incident. Two men and two women were killed in an apparent shooting and were found in different areas of the home on the 5200 block of Mansfield Court