In an Independence Weekend thriller, former DC Mayor and currently elected councilman Marion Barry has been arrested for stalking.

Several people shot and killed early Sunday morning in Southeast DC.

Two July 4^th shootings in the District.

A fifty-six year old former minister convicted of a twenty-six year old rape and murder.

Possible PCP lab found in the wake of a devastating- and apparently shady- blaze in PG County.

Twenty-five years of collecting District crime-scene evidence for this man.

And finally, two people were arrested late last week after the mastermind behind a bank robbery left his mobile phone at the scene.

Two arrests in murders dating back to 1999.

Six officers of the Park Police are on leave after the NE shooting of Trey Joyner.

Texting in VA will mean a fine.

Also:

Montgomery County roads closed, PD gathering due to a man barricading himself inside an apartment.

Montgomery County PD desk duty hours waning, according to Montgomery PD officials.

US Park police officers involved in last month’s fatal shooting of a man in the Trinidad neighborhood have been placed on paid leave.

And finally, this Washington Post article explains how two men were arrested during the week for murders that occurred in the late 1990s.  Each of these crimes, much like the tallboys we’ve got ready to wash away an odd and troubling week, was known as a cold case. 

Mayor of Berwyn Heights, Cheye Calvo, is filing a lawsuit against the county’s sheriff’s office and police department for a SWAT raid which resulted in the mayor’s dogs shot dead.

Melvin Jackson, Jr., a DC Deacon, will testify at his trial in the murder of a French woman two decades ago.

James von Bronn will maybe appear in Federal Court?

How did this happen?

According to Metro spokewoman Lisa Farbstein, the two trains were both headed in the same direction. One rear-ended the other. The female operator of the trailing train died.

“Obviously something went terribly wrong for two trains to be on the same track,” Farbstein said.

Sure put a damper on my evening commute.

“A lot of times, you’re scared for your safety and you don’t know if someone’s going to jump you,” said Deangelo Edwards, 18, a junior advocate for the Alliance of Concerned Men’s Safe Streets Initiative who grew up at the notorious Seventh and O streets NW, an area that has long been a trouble spot for crime. “So there’s nothing else to do besides join a gang.”

Following a spate of shootings in Columbia Heights, residents are worried.  Read a first-hand account of a blogger who was in the Metro station when Thursday’s shooting occurred at Urban Bohemian.

Speaking of blogs, here’s one that wants to know Who Murdered Robert Wone?

PG County — a man was shot to death, and police say circumstances seem to point in the direction of self-defense.

Poor book-keeping with MPD.

When your apartment is busted into because someone on the SWAT team confused apartment 201 with 202, a “couple of movie passes” seems somewhat inadequate.

A D.C. fire captain was convicted of rape Friday.  The 48-year-old was accused of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman half his age.  What’s more, it was a friend of his stepdaughter, who happened to be throwing the party that night.

Hundreds turned up Friday for the funeral of the slain Holocaust Museum guard.

Meanwhile, the judge delayed the hearing for the shooter in that case.  The 88-year-old man was shot in the face in the incident, but is expected to survive.

Police arrested a 19-year-old intern Saturday, who was connected to some shootings near the Columbia Heights Metro station.  No one died in the incident, but the guy happened to be working for Councilman Jim Graham.  He ended up turning himself in after Graham caught wind of the act.

There are now a thousand more handgun models that are allowed in the city.  Thank goodness for that.

Not really crime, but worth mentioning: protests and more protests related to the Iranian election.

Night club stabbings in Northeast.

And finally, thousands of dollars in fines from misdemeanors gone missing, the Examiner reports.  D.C. police officials have no clue where the money is.

The Examiner picked three area fugitives from the FBI’s most wanted list.

Unless you’re staff at one of Virginia’s correctional facilities, no more smoking for you!

Muggings and pistol-whippings somewhere in the District, although the article is unclear as to which S-Street they’re talking about … aren’t there a few?

Glenn Wade, of Woodbridge, has been arrested in the shooting at an employee parking lot — it’s still not yet determined who shot William Anderson.

Flashing headlights — illegal, or nusiance?  So a lawyer named Mark Zaid who flashed his tickets, got everything dismissed, and now wants an apology or he’ll sue.  Overreaction, much?