Quite the scene Friday at the home of Harry “Tommy” Thomas Jr. Federal agents pulled up to the council member’s brick and clapboard house on a hill in the city’s eastern edge. They spent the day, hauling out bags of documents and such. Away went the Chevy Tahoe. They loaded up the cherry red motorcycle, too.

In my quarter century covering the nation’s capital, I can’t think of another time feds packing heat and dressed in flak jackets raided the home of a local elected official. There was the time FBI agents escorted Marion Barry back to his home in January, 1990, after they busted him for smoking crack cocaine in a hotel room. But they didn’t take his Lincoln Town Car.