MPD’s Weekly Firearm Recoveries: May 24, 2021 to May 31, 2021
Thursday, June 3, 2021
(Washington, DC) – Every day, the Metropolitan Police Department works to investigate and recover illegal firearms in Washington D.C. through intelligence-based policing to identify, interdict, and interrupt armed violent offenders within the District. In addition to our patrol officers, members from several of MPD’s specialized units work tirelessly to safely and respectfully secure illegal firearms and get them off our streets. From Monday, May 24, 2021, through Monday, May 31, 2021, MPD detectives and officers recovered 45 firearms in the District of Columbia.
Note: This is not a comprehensive list of all guns recovered in the District of Columbia.
Among the firearms recovered were:
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
A Glock 17 9mm caliber handgun was recovered in the 2600 block of Douglas Road, Southeast. CCN: 21-068-426
A Sig Sauer P9RS 9mm caliber handgun (pictured below) was recovered in the 1400 block of Rhode Island Avenue, Northwest. The following person was arrested: 24-year-old Marquis Cornell Carter, of Southeast, D.C., for Carrying a Pistol without a License, Possession of an Unregistered Firearm, Possession of Unregistered Ammunition, Resisting Arrest, and Possession of a Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device. CCN: 21-068-584
