MPD’s Weekly Firearm Recoveries: Monday, June 6, 2022 to Monday, June 13, 2022

Wednesday, June 15, 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, June 6, 2022, through Monday, June 13, 2022, MPD detectives and officers recovered 53 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, June 6, 2022

  • A Glock 21 .45 caliber handgun was recovered in the 3500 block of Center Street, Northwest. CCN: 22-080-122

Tuesday, June 7, 2022

  • A Fabrique Nationale Herstal-SA FNP40 .40 caliber handgun was recovered in the 3200 block of 28th Street, Southeast. The following person was arrested: 45-year-old Russell Hall, of Northeast, D.C., for Carrying a Pistol without a License. CCN: 22-080-856

  • A Glock 22 .40 caliber handgun was recovered in the 3900 block of Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue, Southwest. The following person was arrested: 23-year-old Labrons Elwood Butler, of Clinton, MD, for Carrying a Pistol without a License, Possession of an Unregistered Firearm, Possession of Unregistered ammunition, Receiving Stolen Property, and Possession of a Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device. CCN: 22-080-912

  • A Taurus 709 Slim 9mm caliber handgun was recovered in the 800 block of Xenia Street, Southeast. The following person was arrested: 41-year-old William Terrell Boyd, of no fixed address, for Carrying a Pistol without a License. CCN: 22-080-953

  • A Rossi 38 Special .38 caliber revolver and six (6) Taurus 38 Special .38 caliber revolvers (all pictured below) were recovered in the 2800 block of New York Avenue, Northeast. CCN: 22-080-959

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