Tag: Washington D.C.
Melissa Farris, Vandalism, Kentucky 2023
⏱ 2 min read Melissa Farris, a 41-year-old woman from Elizabethtown, Kentucky, was charged with vandalizing the World War II Memorial on the National Mall in Washington D.C. on August 13. Farris, also known as Melissa Lovewell, allegedly spray-painted graffiti on the Atlantic Theatre Pavilion, including the words ‘Clean Hands Dirty $’ in orange paint.…
Tremayne Coombs, Unlawful Possession of a Firearm, District of Columbia 2026
⏱ 2 min read Tremayne Coombs, a 32-year-old repeat felon from the District of Columbia, was caught with a loaded Glock 23 .40-caliber semiautomatic pistol in a Nissan Sentra on Benning Road SE on August 4, 2023. The car, which was parked and unoccupied, also had two bags of marijuana weighing 32 ounces. Coombs’ DNA…
Mekhi Greene, Carjacking, District of Columbia 2025
⏱ 2 min read Mekhi Greene, an 18-year-old from Washington D.C., was part of a group that carjacked a local resident at gunpoint on March 23, 2025, in the 3500 block of East Capitol Street Northeast. Greene, who was 17 at the time, and his co-defendants, including Keon Preston, used a fully automatic weapon to…
Kenneth Watts, Conspiracy to Distribute One Kilogram or More of PCP, Maryland 2025
⏱ 3 min read Kenneth Watts, a 59-year-old from Upper Marlboro, Maryland, was involved in a wide-ranging narcotics conspiracy that distributed large quantities of PCP in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. On September 23, 2020, Prince George’s County police intercepted a package containing six kilograms of PCP at a FedEx facility in Maryland, addressed to…
David Fernando Vasquez Bejarano, Cocaine Trafficking, Virginia 2023
⏱ 2 min read A Mexican national, David Fernando Vasquez Bejarano, aka Acelerado, 49, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for his role in a massive cocaine trafficking operation that brought kilogram quantities of cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana, and fentanyl across the southern border into the United States. The operation, which also involved the repatriation…
Vance McIlwain, Armed Assault, District of Columbia 2024
⏱ 2 min read In a brazen daytime attack, Vance McIlwain, 34, and Kenneth Johnson, 33, unleashed a hail of bullets on a Southeast D.C. resident, firing over 15 rounds from a gun they’d retrieved from an apartment building hallway. The victim, who survived but suffered multiple gunshot wounds, including to the chest, lower back,…
Keon Preston, Carjacking, District of Columbia 2025
⏱ 2 min read A hail of gunfire shattered a quiet Washington D.C. afternoon when Keon Preston, 19, and two masked accomplices rained down over 30 rounds on a victim exiting his home in the 4600 block of G Street Southeast on March 23, 2025. Miraculously, the victim escaped unscathed, but his house and car…
Michael Anthony, Kidnapping, Robbery, California 2020
⏱ 3 min read Two women were ambushed and brutally attacked on October 20, 2025, after answering a fake babysitting job ad in Southeast D.C. The victims were dragged into a basement, stabbed, and bound with duct tape by a trio of predators, including a teen who orchestrated the heist from behind bars. According to…
Jewral McIntyre, PPP Loan Fraud, Florida 2021
⏱ 2 min read Jewral McIntyre, the owner of Florida-based security firm Rat Pack Worldwide Security & Consulting, has pleaded guilty to defrauding the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) with a $257,980 loan. McIntyre, 44, of Venice, Florida, conspired with an individual to apply for a PPP loan in the name of Rat Pack, a security…
Jasper Collinson, Child Pornography Distribution, Maryland 2025
⏱ 2 min read A 26-year-old Maryland man is headed to the slammer for his role in a child pornography ring that peddled videos of kids being abused online. Jasper Collinson, 26, of Columbia, Maryland, admitted to distributing nine videos of kids being sexually assaulted on a messaging app in October 2025. During an online…
