Tag: hostage
D.C. Man Held Worker With Axe
⏱ 3 min read Thomas Venable, 59, isn’t just delusional – he’s a menace. Last September 29th, around 12:30 p.m., Venable trapped a social worker inside his Northwest D.C. apartment on the 5400 block of Connecticut Avenue, armed with a metal pole and then, an axe. The motive? A paranoid spiral about stolen Bitcoin and…
Hostage Scare, AK-47, and a Lifetime of Trouble: SC Dealer Faces Life
A frantic cross-state drive and desperate texts sparked a takedown in Lexington County, South Carolina, leading to a 22-year-old man facing a potential life sentence. De’Marionne Miller, already a convicted felon, is staring down the barrel of decades in federal prison after pleading guilty to firearms and narcotics charges stemming from a June 14th standoff…
