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UPDATE: DC police locate critically missing 11-year-old girl

WASHINGTON — D.C. police have located 11-year-old Lisa Thompson, who went missing earlier Monday morning, according to D.C. Chief of Police Peter Newsham. Thompson was located in the 7th District in Southeast D.C., according to police, and appears to be uninjured. Newsham said they suspect Thompson took a bus to Southeast D.C. Police issued a news release Monday evening asking for the public’s assistance in locating Thompson. Temperatures were expected to be in the single digits in the suburbs and in the low teens in D.C., and police were concerned for the girl’s well-being. “This is one of those stories that ended up well,” said Newsham at a news conference Monday night. “We were able to locate her and she will be reunited with her family very shortly.”

Halloween is back at a DC fall festival with police as a special guest

After a muted 2020 holiday due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Halloween is back in one Northeast D.C. neighborhood, and the city’s police stopped by to help celebrate. Every year the Village of Dakota Crossing in the Fort Lincoln area of D.C. celebrates Halloween by bringing neighbors together for a fall festival. You’ll also see about a half dozen officers from D.C. police -- also known as the Metropolitan Police Department, or MPD -- mingling in the neighborhood, sharing candy and cupcakes and watching sack races and costume contests. “I enjoy Halloween — so I thought, what better way to celebrate than to have all of our neighbors celebrating together and to welcome the MPD with us,” said fall festival organizer and costumed cop Kelly Benson, who invited the real D.C. police. “I really appreciate what our MPD officers do for us. And I want our neighbors and my own family to be able to get to know all of them and say hello so that we can feel like this is home. We’re all family looking out for one another.” [connatix_element_embed video_id=9916589d-ade3-4c25-98f9-d31d2e636616]
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