Thursday, July 21, 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, July 11, 2022, through Monday, July 18, 2022, MPD detectives and officers recovered 69 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:

Monday, July 11, 2022

• A Smith & Wesson M&P 9mm caliber handgun was recovered in the 2700 block of Langston Place, Southeast. CCN: 22-098-985

• A Taurus 709 Slim 9mm caliber handgun was recovered in the 3000 block of Stanton Road, Southeast. The following person was arrested: 21-year-old Darius Adrian Anderson, of Southeast, D.C., for Murder I and Carrying a Pistol without a License. CCN: 22-099-145

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

• A Glock 27 .40 caliber handgun was recovered in the 2600 block of Wade Road, Southeast. The following person was arrested: 15-year-old male juvenile, of Southeast, D.C., Carrying a Pistol without a License, Possession of an Unregistered Firearm, Possession of Unregistered Ammunition, Obliterate, Remove, change, or Alter the Serial Number of a Firearm, and Possession of a Controlled Substance. CCN: 22-099-614

• A Springfield Armory Hellcat 9mm caliber handgun was recovered in the 2600 block of Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue, Southeast. CCN: 22-099-627

• A Glock 19 9mm caliber handgun was recovered in the Unit block of 35thStreet, Northeast. The following person was arrested: 24-year-old Daniel Marvin Smith, of Northeast, D.C., for Carrying a Pistol without a License, Possession of an Unregistered Firearm, Possession of Unregistered Ammunition, Counterfeit Tags, Leaving after Colliding, and Possession of a Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device. CCN: 22-099-652

• A Glock 20 10mm caliber handgun and a Glock 26 9mm caliber (both pictured below) were recovered in the 2700 block of Douglas Place, Southeast. CCN: 22-099-666