MPD’s Weekly Firearm Recoveries: Monday, February 7, 2022 to Monday, February 14, 2022

Thursday, February 17, 2022 

(Washington, D.C.) – 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, February 7, 2022, through Monday, February 14, 2022, MPD detectives and officers recovered 67 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, February 8, 2022

  • A Glock 43x 9mm caliber handgun was recovered in the 3300 block of Warder Street, Northwest. CCN: 22-018-205

  • A Smith & Wesson 38 SPL .38 caliber revolver was recovered in the 100 block of M Street, Southwest. CCN: 22-018-213

  • A Taurus G2C .40 caliber handgun was recovered in the 2700 block of Douglas Place, Southeast. The following person was arrested: 18-year-old Jamarie Isaiah Flowers, of District Heights, MD, for Carrying a Pistol without a License and Possession of Unregistered Ammunition. CCN: 22-018-321

  • A Glock 19 Austria BB gun was recovered in the 2400 block of Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue, Southeast. CCN: 22-018-339

  • A Springfield Armory XD-45 .45 caliber handgun was recovered in the 2400 block of Good Hope Road, Southeast. The following person was arrested: 35-year-old Reginald Haggins, of Fort Washington, MD, for Carrying a Pistol without a License, Possession of an Unregistered Firearm, Possession of Unregistered Ammunition, Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance while Armed, and Possession of a Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device. CCN: 22-018-437

  • A Heckler & Koch P30-SK 9mm caliber handgun was recovered in the 1700 block of Benning Road, Northeast. The following person was arrested: 29-year-old Innocent Mgaichuma Mwombela, of Greenbelt, MD, for Carrying a Pistol without a License, Possession of an Unregistered Firearm, and Possession of Unregistered Ammunition. CCN: 22-018-451

  • A 9mm caliber “Ghost Gun” handgun (pictured below) was recovered in the 1800 block of West Virginia Avenue, Northwest. The following person was arrested: 25-year-old Denzel Lynn Kittrell, of Southeast, D.C., for Carrying a Pistol without a License, Possession of an Unregistered Firearm, Possession of Unregistered Ammunition, and Possession of a Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device. CCN: 22-018-461

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