Authorities seek D.C. arsonistD.C. fire investigators are asking the public for help in catching an arsonist who has set car fires across the city over the past month.
Police are concentrating their efforts in the Northwest Washington area between Georgia Avenue and 16th Street, to Columbia Road to the south and Arkansas Avenue to the north. A few cars and scooters were torched around the Woodner Apartments.
Most of the incidents occurred late at night or in the early-morning hours.
Anyone with information can contact the arson tip line at 202-673-ARSON or Crime Solvers Confidential Telephone Hotline, 800-673-2777.
‘Silver Spring rapist’ found guilty
A jury has found the rapist accused of terrorizing Silver Spring in the 1980s and ’90s and convicted of sexual assaults in New York and New Jersey guilty of first-degree rape.
The so-called “Silver Spring rapist,” Fletcher A. Worrell, 63, was convicted by a Montgomery County Circuit Court jury.
Prosecutors say he may have as many as 20 victims in the Silver Spring area, but this is his first conviction in Montgomery County.
Guilty plea in card-skimming scheme
Prosecutors said the leader of a card-skimming ring that scammed diners at Washington restaurants out of more than $100,000 has pleaded guilty.
Gabriel Camara, 36, of D.C., pleaded guilty in federal court in Alexandria to conspiring to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft.
Camara admitted that he paid servers at restaurants throughout the D.C. area, including the Cheesecake Factory, PGA Tour Grill and Outback Steakhouse, to skim diners’ credit card numbers. Camara then encoded the skimmed numbers onto credit cards, which he used to make purchases at wholesale club stores.
In court documents, prosecutors have said the scheme stole $117,000 from area diners.
– Emily Babay
