The police lieutenant whose reportedly stolen handgun was found in a federal raid after the D.C. jail break is back on the job.
Teresa Brown filed a police report in January, claiming that someone had stolen her service pistol from her desk at the Fourth District Police Headquarters on Georgia Avenue in upper Northwest.
The Examiner reported earlier that she also pressured a subordinate to implicate a sergeant in the missing weapon.
She was initially suspended but was allowed to stay on the job pending an appeal.
In June, after two inmates broke out of the D.C. jail, federal marshals raided a dilapidated apartment on W Street. They found Brown’s weapon in the folds of a tattered couch.
The gun had been used in several violent crimes, police later reported.
Brown was then the subjectof an internal investigation. A federal source said Brown was cleared of any wrongdoing in the jail break.
But the presence of the pistol, after what was an inside job at the jail, didn’t reassure the public.
Brown has said that she has enemies in the police department who resent her because she is “a strong black woman.”
On Sunday, she refused comment, hanging up on a reporter after telling him, “I don’t want you to call this phone because you don’t have my permission.”
