Vandal throws rocks by DC church home windows amid crime crackdown

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Within the midst of the Trump administration’s effort to rein in crime in Washington, D.C. , a vandal focused a neighborhood church, hurling rocks by its stained-glass home windows in broad daylight.

The Metropolitan Police Department instructed Fox Information Digital that simply earlier than 6:30 p.m. on Monday, officers responded to Mt. Olive Baptist Church on sixth Avenue Northeast and located rocks had been thrown by the church's home windows.

A close-by automobile additionally had injury to the entrance window, again window, and each mirrors.

By the point officers arrived, the suspect was gone, MPD mentioned.

CAPITOL HILL STAFFER STABBED IN HEAD, CHEST WELCOMES TRUMP'S WASHINGTON, DC CRIME CRACKDOWN

Mt. Olive Baptist church was vandalized Monday afternoon by no less than one rock-throwing suspect, police mentioned. (Google Maps)

The church is within the Capitol Hill space of Washington, D.C., simply steps from Lincoln Park and some blocks east of the Capitol constructing.

It's located between Pennsylvania Avenue NE and H Avenue NE, an space that struggled to get well after being broken throughout the 1969 riots associated to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in keeping with town's website.

The investigation stays ongoing, in keeping with police.

Mt. Olive Baptist Church is within the Capitol Hill space of Washington, D.C. (Google Earth)

HUNDREDS ARRESTED AS TRUMP’S WASHINGTON, DC, CRIME CRACKDOWN HITS FULL STRIDE

FBI Director Kash Patel introduced on Wednesday that federal companions have made greater than 550 arrests in D.C. since President Donald Trump deployed federal brokers to patrol town on Aug. 8.

On Tuesday evening alone, federal brokers made 66 arrests, in keeping with Patel.

The FBI joined companions in 41 of the arrests, recovering six unlawful weapons with eight drug seizures, he added.

"Saving lives day by day," he wrote in an X put up. "Due to the women and men within the discipline."

FBI Director Kash Patel with FBI brokers in Washington, D.C. on August 11 exterior the Park Police Station, the command heart for the Trump administration's new crackdown on crime within the nation's capital. (Courtesy: FBI, solely offered to Fox Information Digital)

WOMAN GUNNED DOWN IN 'SAFE' DC NEIGHBORHOOD AS TRUMP LAUNCHES FEDERAL POLICE TAKEOVER

Along with the citywide 11 p.m. curfew for minors below the age of 17, MPD introduced on Wednesday it was establishing a "juvenile curfew zone" within the U Avenue hall, which is about three miles northwest of Capitol Hill.

Throughout the juvenile curfew zone, youngsters below the age of 17 are prohibited from gathering in a bunch of 9 or extra in any public place or on the premises of any institution except engaged in sure exempted actions, in keeping with police.

The curfew zone shall be in impact from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. by the weekend.

"The Juvenile Curfew Emergency Modification Act of 2025 offers the Chief of the Metropolitan Police Division the authority to order a Juvenile Curfew Zone in an space the place giant teams of youths are gathering or intend to collect in a way that poses a danger of considerable hurt to public security," MPD wrote in an announcement.

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Mt. Olive Baptist Church didn't instantly reply to Fox Information Digital's request for remark.

Alexandra Koch is a Fox Information Digital journalist who covers breaking information, with a concentrate on high-impact occasions that form nationwide dialog and affect authorities response.