Tag: Washington DC
DC Teen Gets 10 Years in Armed Carjacking
⏱ 3 min read Eighteen-year-old Eric Woods is heading to prison for a decade after a late-night armed carjacking in Northwest DC last October. Woods and an accomplice cornered a man in his Hyundai Elantra near Hanover Place and North Capitol Street around 1:33 a.m. on October 11, 2024, and stole the car at gunpoint.…
DC Carjacking Crew: Teen Walks Free
⏱ 3 min read Derrick West, 18, walked a free man Thursday after a D.C. judge handed down a fully suspended sentence for a brazen September 2024 carjacking spree. West, along with accomplices including Antonio Gaither, terrorized D.C. residents, strong-arming victims out of their cars at gunpoint. The 500 block of 48th Place NE and…
Chinatown Walgreens Robber Gets 10.5 Years
⏱ 3 min read Gianni Robinson, 28, is trading city sidewalks for concrete cells after getting 126 months in federal prison for a brazen series of armed robberies targeting a single Walgreens in D.C.’s Chinatown. Between July 2023 and February 2024, Robinson masterminded seven inside-job heists at the store on 7th Street NW, racking up…
D.C. Road Rage: Life Behind Bars
⏱ 3 min read Rasheek Abdullah, 31, is dead because of a man’s temper. Rodney Baggott, 58, will spend the rest of his life in prison after a D.C. jury convicted him of first-degree murder for gunning down Abdullah on January 30, 2024, near Dupont Circle. The shooting stemmed from a simple traffic dispute –…
DC Gunner Gets 13+ Years
⏱ 3 min read Michael Stuckey, 36, is staring down 13 years and four months in federal prison after a two-year run pushing illegal firearms onto DC streets. Federal prosecutors sentenced Stuckey to 160 months today after he copped a plea in January 2026. The bust, a joint effort between local detectives and federal agents,…
Ex-Con Dumps Glock, Gets 2 Years
⏱ 3 min read David Oday Smith, 39, is headed back inside for two years. Cops spotted him lugging a bag near a D.C. bus stop on July 14, 2025. When they moved in, Smith ran, tossing the bag over a fence. Inside? A loaded .40 caliber Glock 27 with 15 rounds. Witnesses saw the…
Stolen Glock Lands DC Felon 2 Years
⏱ 3 min read Charles General, 29, is trading the streets of D.C. for a federal cell after getting two years for packing a stolen .45 caliber Glock 30S. Metro PD flagged him and a crew smokin’ weed in a Cedar Street SE parking lot back in October 2023. The smell led to a search,…
Fentanyl Dealer Dumped Gun, Drugs
⏱ 3 min read Derrick Thomas Martin, 33, is facing a lengthy federal sentence after a frantic attempt to ditch a deadly payload backfired. On November 25, 2024, D.C. police went to Martin’s apartment on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue SE – acting on a warrant from Maryland – and he responded by hurling a backpack out…
Chinatown Walgreens Robberies: 10.5 Years
⏱ 2 min read Gianni Robinson, 28, is facing over a decade in federal prison for masterminding a seven-hit spree on a Walgreens in D.C.’s Chinatown. Between July 2023 and February 2024, Robinson used inside information and a masked gunman to steal roughly $28,983. One Walgreens employee was shot in the chest during the robberies.…
DC Road Rage: Life for Uber Driver Killer
⏱ 2 min read Rodney Baggott, 58, will die in prison for gunning down Uber Eats driver Rasheek Abdullah in broad daylight. The shooting stemmed from a simple case of road rage near the Dupont Circle Metro station on January 30th. Baggott, already a convicted killer, snapped after Abdullah’s car passed him, and blasted Abdullah…
