MPD’s Weekly Firearm Recoveries: July 21 to July 27, 2025
Monday, August 11, 2025
Every day, the Metropolitan Police Department works to investigate and recover illegal firearms in Washington D.C. through intelligence-based policing to identify, interdict, and interrupt armed violent offenders within the District. In addition to our patrol officers, members from several of MPD’s specialized units work tirelessly to safely and respectfully secure illegal firearms and get them off our streets. From Monday, July 21, 2025, through Sunday, July 27, 2025, MPD detectives and officers recovered 60 firearms in the District of Columbia.
Note: This is not a comprehensive list of all guns recovered in the District of Columbia.
Among the firearms recovered were:
Monday, July 21, 2025
A Glock 30 .40 caliber handgun was recovered in the 5600 block of Chillum Place, Northeast. The following person was arrested: 29-year-old Izaiah Pharoah McNeil, of Capitol Heights, MD, for Carrying a Pistol without a License, Carrying a Pistol without a License – Gun Free Zone, Possession of an Unregistered Firearm, Possession of Unregistered Ammunition, No Permit, and Possession of a Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device. CCN: 25-110-149
A Tokarev TBP-12 12-gauge shotgun was recovered in the 4700 block of MacArthur Boulevard, Northwest. CCN: 25-110-150
A Taurus G3C 9mm caliber handgun was recovered in the 4300 block of Kansas Avenue, Northwest. The following person was arrested: 18-year-old Enrique Leonardo Ramos Moreno, of Northwest, D.C., for Carrying a Pistol without a License, Carrying a Pistol without a License – Gun Free Zone, Possession of an Unregistered Firearm, Possession of Unregistered Ammunition, and Possession of a Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device. CCN: 25-110-246
A 9mm caliber “Ghost Gun” handgun (pictured below) was recovered in the 2600 block of Stanton Road, Southeast. The following person was arrested: 19-year-old Maurice Hawley, of Southeast, D.C., for Carrying a Pistol without a License, Unlawful Possession of a Firearm, Unlawful Possession of Ammunition, National Firearms Act, and Possession of a Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device. CCN: 25-110-276