Fenty canvasser charged for selling crack
A canvasser for Mayor Adrian Fenty’s re-election campaign was arrested for allegedly selling crack to an undercover officer in Northwest.
Police detained Demetrius Eccles on Friday at Georgia Avenue and Piney Branch Road. Law enforcement would not release his age or address. A campaign spokeswoman said Eccles has since been fired and he was not on duty at the time of the arrest.
Man falls 30 feet at Voice of America headquarters
Authorities say a man is in critical condition after he fell down a 30-foot window well at Voice of America headquarters in Southwest.
D.C. Fire and EMS spokesman Pete Piringer said the fall was the result of horseplay.
Emergency personnel responded to a confined-space rescue assignment around 12:30 a.m. Sunday and found the man, who police said is in his 20s, unconscious at the bottom of a window well roughly 10 feet wide and 30 feet deep.
Police believe the man jumped over a wall without checking to see what was on the other side, and fell into the well.
After he was rescued, the man was transported to a nearby trauma center in critical condition, police said.
30 years for Maryland man who stole from police union
A 56-year-old Baltimore man was sentenced to 30 years in prison for stealing more than $200,000 from the Baltimore/Washington area Fraternal Orders of Police.
Gary Toroni worked for Amera Funding, a business hired by the police union to raise money for the organization. He abused the role to steal the cash, prosecutors said.
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Trooper’s bullet killed Maryland woman
A bullet fired from a Maryland state trooper’s service weapon killed a Libertytown woman during a standoff, authorities said.
Cpl. Eric Corbin, an eight-year veteran, was placed on paid administrative leave pending an internal investigation, officials said. He was the only officer to fire at the gun-wielding 46-year-old Veronica Harding-Perkins during a standoff Thursday morning.
Police were called to the house in the rural Frederick County town for a domestic disturbance.
Compiled by Freeman Klopott and Hayley Peterson
