Arrest in jewelry store killing
A 52-year-old D.C. man was arrested Thursday in connection with a murder and robbery at an Arlington jewelry store last week.
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James Sylvester Caroline had been picked up Wednesday on a probation violation and is expected to be charged in the murder of 52-year-old Tommy Wong, Arlington police said.
Wong, of Herndon, was inside his store, Capital Jewelers on the 3200 block of Columbia Pike on Friday afternoon when he was slain.
D.C. police are working to determine whether Caroline was involved in a June 9 jewelry store robbery in District.
Georgetown sex attacker had heavy Australian accent
U.S. Capital Police are seeking a man with a heavy Australian accent in sex assault on Georgetown waterfront.
Around 1 a.m., July 7, the man offered to help the woman help find her friends at M Street and 31st Street NW.
The man led to the victim onto the C&O Canal just off 31st Street and pushed the woman into the bushes and sexually assaulted her.
The suspect was a white male, in his late 20s, slightly overweight, with short dark hair and a scruffy beard.
He wore a polo shirt with white and blue horizontal stripes and shorts.
Anyone with information can call police at 202-610-7505, or the U.S. Park Police Tip Line 202-610-8737.
Judge punishes mother for girl’s chalk drawings
A Virginia mother was ordered to perform community service after her young daughter drew with chalk on rocks at a park in Virginia’s Northern Neck.
Susan Mortensen, 29, of Richmond, who was charged with vandalism in March, agreed to perform 50 hours of community service work for the James River Park System.
She will have to weed around fence posts, scrape the paint off and repaint them, reports WWBT.
After the hearing, Mortensen told WWBT that her daughter has been traumatized by the experience.
— Scott McCabe
