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On this date in 2009, D.C. sniper John Muhammad was executed by lethal injection in Virginia. Muhammad — born John Allen Williams; he renamed himself after joining the Nation of Islam — authored with Lee Boyd Malvo, a juvenile collaborator under his sway, a spree of random sniper attacks around the Washington D.C. suburbs that terrified the nation’s capital in October 2002. The two were captured together sleeping out in their sniper-mobile — a Chevy Caprice with a hole drilled in the trunk for taking concealed potshots at gas stations and mall parking lots and the like. Although arrested initially...

WASHINGTON — D.C. police are investigating after an officer shot and killed a dog that allegedly attacked him while serving a search warrant at a Northwest Washington home Tuesday night. Marietta Robinson, who lives at the address, said police were unjustified in killing the dog, which she put in the bathroom before police entered the home. Police were searching for her grandson, who the woman said hasn’t lived there in so long, not even her 13-year-old dog knew what her grandson looked like. An officer entered the bathroom over the 62-year-old woman’s protests and shot the dog, named Wrinkles. As...

The former Maryland police chief who led the chase for the Washington, D.C.-area sniper in 2002 may become Honolulu's most well-known rookie cop next month. A police official confirmed Charles Moose, a former police chief in Montgomery County, Md., and Portland, Ore., had signed up for the Honolulu Police Department's Training Academy, which starts May 1. But HPD Maj. Susan Ballard also said that Moose has been having second thoughts. "He's been going back and forth on his decision," she said. Sandy Herman Moose, the former chief's wife, told the Oregonian newspaper in a story yesterday that her husband does...

NEW ORLEANS -- Nearly three years have passed since the D.C.-area sniper shootings, but the police chief who pursued the snipers until their capture is still a well-recognized personality -- even in the face of disaster. "Hey, it's the sniper guy," is a common remark, no matter where former Montgomery County Police Chief Charles A. Moose goes on duty in this city as an Air National Guard officer. Maj. Moose said yesterday he has a clearly defined role in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina -- organize the Guard's security response in New Orleans.

WASHINGTON The man who was Montgomery County's police chief during the sniper shootings is among the National Guard troops deployed to Louisiana on hurricane duty. The D-C National Guard says Charles Moose is commander of the 113th Security Forces Squadron. Chief Moose -- now known as Major Moose -- is coordinating the security help the military is giving the New Orleans police. The D-C Guard's commanding general says being an ex-cop makes Moose ideal for the job. Moose also served on active duty with the Guard following the September eleventh terror attacks, when he was assigned to a military police...

WASHINGTON - Charles Moose, the former police chief who led the task force to capture the Washington-area snipers, is now serving in the National Guard. His wife, Sandy, said Moose is in San Antonio for the third month of a six-month active duty call-up as a major for the Air National Guard. She told The Washington Post that Moose is on special assignment studying non-lethal weapons. Moose resigned as Montgomery County police chief in 2003 amid criticism from county ethics officials that he was cashing in on his job by writing a book about the 2002 serial sniper case that...

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Speaking in York, Charles Moose told police and others how his department approached the issue. By SHAWN LEDINGTON Daily Record/Sunday News Thursday, July 1, 2004 Charles Moose, former Montgomery County, Md., police chief, said police should openly address inquiries about racial profiling. Much of the battleground that community residents and police were on regarding racial profiling and whether it exists may have been skipped over Wednesday night when a nationally recognized police officer spoke to a small crowd at Crispus Attucks Community Center. Though many of the county's movers and shakers — including lawmakers, commissioners and city council members —...

Moose's Police Chief Hopes Over in Minneapolis Updated: Saturday, Dec. 20, 2003 - 3:59 PM MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak has named Dayton, Ohio's police chief as his choice to lead the police department in Minnesota's biggest city. Rybak's choice of William McManus had been expected. McManus was one of two finalists. The other was former Montgomery County, Md. police chief Charles Moose - the public face of law enforcement during the hunt for the Washington-area snipers. But the mayor's choice may face a tough fight in the City Council. Several council members have criticized Rybak for failing...

BACHELDER'S GRANT, Maine - A group of high school students who had set out for a weekend camping trip and disappeared during a snowstorm may have been spotted Monday by a game warden pilot. "By the air, we found this group walking single-file and we're sending someone in to confirm it's this group of missing students," said spokesman Mark Latti of the Maine Warden Service. Three college students missing on a weekend hike in another part of western Maine were found safe Monday. The 10 students from Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School set out Friday with two adults for a...

Former Montgomery County, Md., Police Chief Charles Moose, who often spoke for the law enforcement community during the investigation of last year's Washington-area sniper attacks, has applied to be the next police chief in Minneapolis, the Star Tribune reported Saturday. The Minneapolis-based newspaper said unidentified sources confirmed Moose was one of 26 applicants. Moose's wife, Sandy, told the Associated Press from her Maryland home Saturday the family had no comment and said her husband was unavailable. A spokeswoman for Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak told the AP he is prohibited by law from disclosing the names of applicants until finalists are...

Cryptic notes and calls described; Muhammad possibly caught on video. VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Jurors heard firsthand accounts yesterday of the cryptic dialogue between the serial snipers and investigators - rambling phone conversations and letters in which the killers threatened children and demanded $10 million as part of an extortion plot.

US sniper 'linked to terror cult' By James Langton in New York, Evening Standard 14 October 2003 Evidence has emerged linking Washington sniper John Allen Muhammad with an Islamic terror group. Muhammad has been connected to Al Fuqra, a cult devoted to spiritual purification through violence. The group has been linked to British shoe bomber Richard Reid and the murderers of American journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan last year. Muhammad today stands trial for murder after bringing terror to America's suburbs along with a 17-year-old accomplice, Lee Malvo. Until now many believed that the killing spree, which left 10 dead,...

<p>I can't change the TV channels without seeing the ubiquitous mug of former Montgomery County, Md., police chief-turned-author Charles A. Moose. First, it was "Dateline NBC" with Stone Phillips. The following morning, he chatted up the "Today" show's Matt Lauer. Now, he's hanging out on CNN.</p>

<p>BETHESDA, Md. — Charles Moose (search) looks deeply pained on the cover of his book about his life and sudden vault into fame as head of the Washington-area sniper investigation. His brow is screwed tightly, his eyes cast downward in the close-up photo.</p>

Book by Police Chief in Sniper Case Set Book by Charles Moose, Police Chief in Washington, D.C.-Area Sniper Case, Goes on Sale Monday The Associated Press BETHESDA, Md. Sept. 14 — The book that Charles Moose gave up his police job to write reveals little new about the three-week sniper investigation he led, but focuses much on his life, racism, criticism of the media and the ethics controversy over the book itself. "Three Weeks in October" goes on sale Monday, nearly a year after the Washington, D.C.-area sniper shootings started. The book by Moose, the former Montgomery County police chief,...

The former Maryland police chief accused the Ihilani of prejudice. The police chief who led the investi-gation into last fall's Washington-area sniper shootings received an undisclosed amount of money from Ihilani resort at Ko Olina after threatening to sue over an alleged incident of racial discrimination late last year, according to a published report yesterday. Former Montgomery County police Chief Charles Moose sought $200,000 to settle the discrimination charges, the Washington Post reported citing confidential sources. The settlement came to light through a review of Moose's 2003 financial disclosure form, which listed a legal settlement as income. Montgomery County is...

Panel Delays Moose's PayMontgomery Seeks Details on Legal SettlementBy Matthew Mosk and Dana Hedgpeth Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, August 7, 2003; Page B01 Montgomery County is withholding former police chief Charles A. Moose's final paycheck while the county Ethics Commission seeks more details about a legal settlement he listed as income on his 2003 financial disclosure form, county officials said. Moose is asking to keep confidential the source and amount of the money he and his wife received before his resignation June 28. The payment was mentioned on forms made public by the commission last week. The forms do...

Montgomery County is withholding former police chief Charles A. Moose's final paycheck while the county Ethics Commission seeks more details about a legal settlement he listed as income on his 2003 financial disclosure form, county officials said. Moose is asking to keep confidential the source and amount of the money he and his wife received before his resignation June 28. The payment was mentioned on forms made public by the commission last week. The forms do not disclose who made the payment. But Moose sought a financial settlement this year from Marriott International Inc., according to sources familiar with that...

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) - The teenager accused in a string of sniper killings last year said he wounded a 13-year-old boy in order to make the police chief hunting him "emotional," a prison guard testified. Joseph Stracke, a captain at the Supermax prison in Baltimore, testified at a pretrial hearing Thursday that Lee Boyd Malvo spoke proudly of the shootings allegedly committed by him and fellow suspect John Allen Muhammad. The conversation occurred Oct. 26, two days after Malvo's arrest. Stracke said he asked Malvo why he shot Iran Brown, 13, outside a Bowie, Md., middle school. "To make Chief...