Narcotics Bust: Scott Montgomery Elementary School
Tuesday, May 8; 7pm
[ See video! ] [ Update: Names and addresses of those arrested ] After discovering a drug deal in progress as a part of their surveillance of Scott Montgomery Elementary School, narcotics officers swarmed the playground and arrested two subjects — Patrick Shaw, 19, 5400 Oxon Hill Dr, for distributing marijuana and Bridgette Stewart, 26, 5300 4th St NW for possession of marijuana. The playground is considered by some to be a haven for destructive criminal activity in Shaw.
Witnesses reported that a chorus of similarly white-shirted basketball players, in the background, could be heard shouting “PD-99!, PD-99!, PD-99!...” to suggest that they were fully aware of ways to possibly beat a criminal wrap by having someone file a PD-99 form to make an accusation of police misconduct. The schoolyard chant preceded the segements of the arrests caught on video, but at least in these segments, there is no evidence of police misconduct.
The basketball games continued in the background as if the evidence of criminal activity was not the least bit unusual despite what appears to have been the largest presence of police officers on the Scott Montgomery Elementary School campus in at least six years.
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05/09/07 @ 16:23 
Even if the police can not camp out there, the police and authorities can
1) remove the personal, basketball-goals-on-wheel that the youth rolled onto school grounds and
2) remove the 4-N-R and 5-N-O gang tags & graffitti spray-painted on the basketball courts and around the school
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05/09/07 @ 16:33 Thank you for the comment. But this is a hot spot deserving as much attention as those along 7th St and O Street in Shaw. Thankfully, no one has been killed here yet. Indeed, there was a gun found a few weeks ago on the campus. But let's not wait for a death of a young person or anyone else before we step things up so that is not a haven for drug trafficking, use, and destruction of DCPS property.
Call Jack Evans office and ask them to do whatever they can to clean up this problem. (202) 724-8058.
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05/09/07 @ 16:52 Is the D.E.A. any use here?
Maybe we should get the U.S. Attorneys in on this as a nuissance property (despite it being owned by D.C.).
On a largely unrelated subject, Binformed is encouraging people to write Fenty discouraging him from attending Leroy's June meeting, which I think is a great idea:
http://www.binformed.com/entry_detail.cfm?entryID=64
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05/10/07 @ 20:00 Scott Montgomery is not a hot spot the vice task force already knows it. They jump out and frisk the neighborhood kids all the time and sometimes the will even state "we know you all are clean but we have to search yall any way its a routine and we are going to keep having to do it aslong as your neighborhood is considered a crime zone."
Do you really think it is neccesary the DEA get involved over a $10 bag of marjuana. That is a misdameanor offense.
I know the city may need to tighten up on some of the policies but if they threw the DEA on every case it would not be any money left in the budget.
"Maybe we should get the U.S. Attorneys in on this as a nuissance property (despite it being owned by D.C.)."
Yeah I know you would love to see the public park closed and then the kids would really be forced to hang out on the street corners. Is that where you prefer them to be.
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