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Dealer Admits To Fatal Shooting, Assaulting Inmate In DC Jail While Awaiting Trial: Feds Dealer Admits To Fatal Shooting, Assaulting Inmate In DC Jail While Awaiting Trial: Feds
Dealer Admits To Fatal Shooting, Assaulting Inmate In DC Jail While Awaiting Trial: Feds A District man has admitted to his role in the fatal shooting of a 25-year-old woman and a subsequent attack on an inmate while behind bars inside a DC jail, federal authorities announced. Karlos Kinney, 24, pleaded guilty this week in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia to voluntary manslaughter while armed in the April 2020 shooting death of Resha Blount and also to assault with significant bodily injury for a November 2022 attack on inmate Jordan Jones while detained. Prosecutors said that shortly before the fatal shooting, Blount had invited Kinney to her home with the i…

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District Man Busted With Bag Of Guns After Tripping, Falling While Fleeing Officers Sentenced District Man Busted With Bag Of Guns After Tripping, Falling While Fleeing Officers Sentenced
District Man Busted With Bag Of Guns After Tripping, Falling While Fleeing Officers Sentenced A 22-year-old District man who can't keep himself out of trouble will spend nearly a decade behind bars, authorities announced. Saadiq Logan was sentenced to 117 months in prison after being arrested last summer by members of the Metropolitan Police Department with a suspicious backpack that was loaded with illegal weapons, according to federal officials on Tuesday. According to court documents, on June 22, 2022, officers from the department's Violent Crime Impact Team were on patrol in Southeast DC when they spotted a group standing around a Mercedes that was parked in the area. Logan was…

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Elusive Escaped Inmate On The Run Hours After Fleeing Custody In DC: Police Elusive Escaped Inmate On The Run Hours After Fleeing Custody In DC: Police
Elusive Escaped Inmate On The Run Hours After Fleeing Custody In DC: Police New photos have been released by the Metropolitan Police Department on Tuesday night as they continue to search for Kenneth Phillips, who escaped custody and is at large. The MPD advised that the 22-year-old Phillips was able to wriggle away from his police detail during a planned medical visit at an area hospital early on Tuesday, March 7, and remained on the run hours later at approximately 7 p.m., as the Department of Corrections continue their exhaustive search. Phillips was previously arrested in November 2021 and held in DC Jail on carjacking and burglary charges. He made his great e…

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Two Inmates Supposedly Overdosed At DC Jail In Three Days: Report Two Inmates Supposedly Overdosed At DC Jail In Three Days: Report
Two Inmates Supposedly Overdosed At DC Jail In Three Days: Report At least two people are dead and another is hospitalized after alleged opioid fentanyl overdoses at a DC jail, multiple sources report.  Ramone O'Neal, 28, and Sean Lee, 37, were said to be in the same cell when they reportedly overdosed at D.C. Jail on Sunday, May 15, according to WTOP and NBC Washington.  Lee was pronounced dead while his cellmate had to be revived with NARCAN, the outlets report. He was and was taken to the hospital where he is expected to survive.  Investigators are now trying to figure out how the drugs entered the jail and local politicians have called attention to …

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by David Cifarelli