3 shot in Congress Heights

By Marcus Lustig
December 24, 2019 | 5:56 PM

Three men were shot in D.C.’s Congress Heights neighborhood Tuesday afternoon. The shooting took place around 1:30 p.m. in the 3500 block of Wheeler Road SE, near Oxon Run Park. The men were taken to a hospital and are all in stable condition. Police are still looking for the shooter, who they said took off from the scene in a red Nissan Rogue with ski racks.

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Party’s over for crypto scammers who went on a spending spree after a $240 million bitcoin theft

By The Associated Press
September 7, 2026 | 7:59 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — They pulled off one of the largest cryptocurrency thefts in U.S. history, duping a stranger out of bitcoin worth over $240 million. They tried to hide their digital fingerprints, carrying out a sophisticated scheme to launder the proceeds. And then the party started. The scammers — a network of young men in their late teens or early 20s — celebrated the August 2024 heist by embarking on a wild spending spree. They purchased fleets of sports cars, flew on private jets, hired security guards and rented mansions in Miami and the Hamptons. An alleged ringleader, 22-year-old Malone Lam, spent over $569,000 in one evening at a Los Angeles night club. Their bender lasted a month before FBI agents arrested Lam on charges that he organized a "social engineering" attack on the Washington, D.C., resident. Lam, an eighth-grade dropout from Singapore, has a plea agreement hearing set for Tuesday. His conviction would be a capstone for the government's investigation.

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