Thursday, April 6, 2023

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, March 27, 2023, through Monday, April 3, 2023, MPD detectives and officers recovered 32 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, March 27, 2023

• A Ruger EC9S 9mm caliber handgun was recovered in the 700 block of 16th Street, Northeast. CCN: 23-047-017

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

• A Taurus G2C .40 caliber handgun was recovered in the 2900 block of Martin Luther King, Jr Avenue, Southeast. The following person was arrested: 24-year-old Sean Smith, of no fixed address, for Carrying a Pistol without a License, Possession of an Unregistered Firearm, Possession of a Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device, and Possession With Intent to Distribute Marijuana. CCN: 23-048-110

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

• A Smith & Wesson SD40VE .40 caliber handgun was recovered in the 3400 block of 4th Street, Southeast. CCN: 23-048-362

• A SCCY CPX-1 9mm caliber handgun (pictured below) was recovered in the 5100 block of Sheriff Road, Northeast. The following person was arrested: 22-year-old Donovan Davis, of Northeast, D.C., for Carrying a Pistol without a License, Possession of an Unregistered Firearm, and Possession of Unregistered Ammunition. CCN: 23-048-662