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Police Find Assault Weapon Near Supreme Court Associated Press WorldStream via NewsEdge Corporation WASHINGTON_Police are investigating a loaded assault weapon found in a parking lot a block from the Supreme Court, a law enforcement official said. Members of the Supreme Court police force discovered the machine pistol on Dec. 2 in the lot in the residential Capitol Hill neighborhood east of the Court and turned it over to the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police, Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said Friday. The U.S. Capitol is west of the Supreme Court. Officials at the Supreme Court and Metropolitan Police Department would...

D.C. police have canceled days off and are planning to deploy several hundred officers during an antiwar demonstration next weekend that will include a march near the White House, but officials said they expect no trouble.Saturday's rally, part of a weekend of protests and counter-protests, will be the first demonstration allowed to surround the White House in more than a decade. It is the first major rally to occur since a D.C. law that requires police to give clear warnings before arresting demonstrators took effect. Passed in response to the much-criticized mass arrests of protesters at a downtown park in...

WASHINGTON -- An Illinois man is under arrest, charged with threatening to blow up the Capitol Hill headquarters of the Council on American Islamic Relations. D.C. Police assisted the F.B.I. in the arrest of 55-year-old Max Oakley of Toledo. He allegedly e-mailed threats to bomb CAIR's D.C. office and other American mosques unless the civil rights group ceased operations. If convicted, Oakley faces up to ten years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.

Police told a group of conservatives affiliated with FreeRepublic.com to cease a mock bake sale they held in front of John Kerry’s D.C. campaign headquarters last weekend. The small, pro-Bush rally was held to counter MoveOn.org’s “Bake Back the White House” bake sale last weekend, which the liberal organization claims brought in $250,000 from 1,000 bake sales around the country. The proceeds will help fund anti-Bush ads. Kristinn Taylor, who helped organize the FreeRepublic gathering, said since the law prohibits a group like MoveOn from “co-ordinating” with the Kerry effort, it couldn’t hold a bake sale in front of headquarters....

FOX NEWS: BOMB THREAT IN WASHINGTON DC.. THREAT FOUND OFF OF INTERNET.. NO MORE INFORMATION KNOWN AT THIS TIME.. REPORTEDLY SEARCHING EVERY SCHOOL IN DC AREA

D.C police officers making routine stops are prohibited from asking people about their immigration status, Metropolitan Police officials said yesterday in a restatement of department policy. "We will leave that to the federal officials," Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey said at a briefing to announce new training procedures and a public information campaign about the policy. Chief Ramsey also said that illegal immigrants need to know that reporting a crime does not mean a trip back to their native coutnry and that officers will deliver fair and equal police services to every person within the District. D.C. police officers cannot...

 

(June 6th, 2002 -- 11:18 PM EDT //Un-&%$^#@* believable. Despite giving them a hard time now and then I've always resisted the idea that the DC cops were really fundamentally incompetent, that the seeming inscrutability of Chandra Levy's disappearance and murder might simply be the result of ridiculously inept police work. Now I've changed my mind. As you no doubt know, Levy's remains were found recently in an isolated section of DC's Rock Creek park. But a couple days ago a fellow Chandra-phile and I were watching Greta Van Susteren's show when she and a couple guests -- a renowned...

<p>In our last column, you'll recall, we wrote in detail about an organizer of the recent "Patriots Rally for America," held on the grounds of the Washington Monument, who had his pickup truck towed by Metropolitan Police from a legal parking space along Constitution Avenue.</p>

It's now been a week and a day since The Patriots Rally for America, and Gore_ War_ Vet's truck is still MIA somewhere in our nations capital; thanks to some unknown tow truck driver on the city of DC payroll. Gore_ War_ Vet and I had unloaded all our rally supplies from our vehicles at the rally site on Constitution Avenue at 7:30am last Saturday, April 20th, and we then headed off to find parking. Parking on Constitution Avenue is usually allowed, but the street was marked with "Emergency - No Parking" signs because the radical left's pro-intifada demonstration was...