Crime Report: Auto Thefts and ATVs
By • June 10, 2025 0 633
At the June 2 meeting of ANC 2E, Lt. Danielle Vitatoe of the Metropolitan Police Department reported that thefts from autos were increasing, but violent crimes were declining in and around Georgetown. She added that there were no reported burglaries for May.
Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Topher Mathews reported that there were several auto break-ins around 34th and Q Streets two weeks ago. He also noted that about five police officers appeared to have arrested a group of persons on the 3400 block of R Street last month. Lt. Vitatoe told commissioners she would get back to them about those two incidents.
Commissioners also told Lt. Vitatoe about a large group of all-terrain vehicle drivers who rode down O Street on Memorial Day and entered Rose Park, imperiling the public and causing damage to property. She was not aware of the ATV disturbance and asked if anyone had called the police. For years, there have been ATV riders all across the city causing an ongoing commotion.
Meanwhile, according to the Washington Post, there “were among 20 people slain in the District in May, all by gunfire, in a surge of violence that brought the city’s 2025 homicide toll to 69 as of Saturday, the last day of the month. After a long stretch in which the pace of killings in D.C. was lower than in 2024, the spike in violence last month meant that the body count as of May 31 nearly equaled the District’s 73 homicides in the first five months of last year. … The May violence, including 18 killing in 18 days, also claimed the lives of Israeli Embassy employees Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, 26.”
