Metro Transit Police

Metro says one of its Transit Police officers has tested positive for coronavirus. The officer was stationed at the District 2 headquarters, which is right next to the Franconia-Springfield station. The officer started feeling ill last week and his test results just came back Monday.  Metro said it is retracing the officer’s steps and trying to determine if he...

Former Metro Transit Police officers testified before the D.C. Council that they were pressured to meet a certain amount of tickets and arrests, calling it a quota system. They said they faced retaliation if they failed to generate that amount of tickets. “If you do make a complaint, you’re basically blackballed,” said Tiffany Washington, who served for 18 years....

Former Metro Transit Police officers testified before the D.C. Council about pressure to issue tickets. Transportation Reporter Adam Tuss reports.

Metro Transit Police Chief Ron Pavlik addressed questions Thursday about a ticket-writing contest held among officers. The ticket-writing contest encouraged arrest and enforcement by offering prizes as a reward. One officer received a $20 gift card for writing many citations. Pavlik said an officer notified him of the contest. The program was shut down after an investigation last summer, but…

Transportation Reporter Adam Tuss gets an update from Metro Transit Police on the alleged ticket-writing contest.

A video posted on Twitter shows Metro Transit Police handcuffing a crying 13-year-old boy. Police said the boy pushed an officer inside the Shaw-Howard Metro Station last week, but the man who recorded the video accused the officers of harassing the boy. Meagan Fitzgerald reports.

A video posted on Twitter shows Metro Transit Police taking into custody a crying 13-year-old boy who refused provide his mother’s name or number after he was stopped for “horseplay” Thursday night. According to police, two officers on a Green Line train saw two boys grabbing each other as if they were in a fight on the platform at...

A video posted on Twitter shows Metro Transit Police taking into custody a crying 13-year-old boy who refused provide his mother’s name or number after he was stopped for “horseplay” Thursday night.

Authorities are searching for a man they say exposed himself at a Popeyes in Clinton, Maryland, and then assaulted a woman on a Metro train.

A 15-year-old died Saturday after being stabbed by another teen on the Metro, D.C. police say.

A 15-year-old stabbing victim walked up to a Metro station manager and collapsed inside the Capitol South station Friday, Metro Transit Police said.

Metro Transit Police Chief Ron Pavlik has asked the U.S. Attorney’s Office to independently review an officer’s use of force during an arrest at the U Street Metro station in Northwest Washington.

A man is filing a lawsuit against three Metro Transit Police officers who he says wrongfully arrested him and used a stun gun on him this summer. News4’s Shomari Stone reports.

In a viral story, a Metro Transit Police officer stepped in to help a young boy with autism after he had a meltdown on a train.

A 4-year-old boy with autism and a Metro Transit Police Officer were reunited after the story of the two meeting went viral. News4’s Mark Segraves reports.

One of the suspects in a Metro station shooting was arrested Friday, Metro Transit Police said.   Mauquez Daquan Fewell, 22, was arrested in connection to the shooting that happened at the Shaw-Howard University metro station Friday afternoon.  The second suspect is still on the loose, police said. The victim was shot on the station platform after an argument with...

D.C. police have arrested a man who allegedly raped a woman in broad daylight on a platform at the Cheverly Metro station.

D.C. police have arrested a man who allegedly raped a woman in broad daylight on a platform at the Cheverly Metro station. News4’s Justin Finch reports.

Metro Transit Police Chief Ron Pavlik has asked the U.S. Attorney’s Office to independently review an officer’s use of force during an arrest at the U Street Metro station in Northwest Washington.

Charges have been dropped against a man two days after a Metro Transit Police officer used a stun gun on him at the U Street station, the man’s lawyer told News4.