Teens charged with murder slipped through D.C. agency cracks

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Repeated failures by District agencies to communicate about criminal charges allowed at least two wards of the city’s juvenile justice agency to be on the streets — where authorities say they committed murder.

Detailed within documents obtained by The Washington Examiner from three juvenile criminal cases are examples of warrants slipping through the cracks among the D.C. Attorney General’s Office, the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and law enforcement agencies.

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