MPD’s Weekly Firearm Recoveries: July 7 to July 13, 2025
Wednesday, July 16, 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 7, 2025, through Sunday, July 13, 2025, MPD detectives and officers recovered 49 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 7, 2025
A Glock 43 9mm caliber handgun was recovered in the 800 block of T Street, Northwest. The following people were arrested: 28-year-old Samba Ilic Sow, of Northeast, D.C., 31-year-old Joshua Salinas, of Hyattsville, MD, and 30-year-old Brianna Johnson, of Southeast, D.C., for Carrying a Pistol Without a License, Possession of an Unregistered Firearm, Possession of Unregistered Ammunition, Resisting Arrest, Unlawful Discarding of Firearms/Ammunition, Possession of an Open Container of Alcohol, Fugitive from Justice, Tampering with Physical Evidence, Possession of a Controlled Substance, and Felon in Possession. CCN: 25-101-959
A Colt M4 Carbine .556 caliber assault rifle was recovered in the 3300 block of Idaho Avenue, Northwest. CCN: 25-102-180
A .300 caliber “Ghost Gun” assault rifle (pictured below) was recovered in the 1400 block of Cedar Street, Southeast. CCN: 25-102-289
A Glock 23 .40 caliber handgun was recovered in the 2500 block of Southern Avenue, Southeast. The following person was arrested: 26-year-old Wayne Delonte Jordan-Smith, of Temple Hills, MD, for Assault on a Police Officer and Emergency Personnel, Resisting Arrest, Carrying a Pistol without a License, Possession of Unregistered Firearm, Possession of Unregistered Ammunition, and Possession of a Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device. CCN: 25-102-316
A Glock 27 9mm caliber handgun was recovered in the 4500 block of Benning Road, Southeast. The following person was arrested: 28-year-old Jeremy Markel Hayes, of Clinton, MD, for Carrying a Pistol Without a License. CCN: 25-102-326
A C-11 4.5mm caliber BB gun (pictured below) was recovered in the 600 block of 21st Street, Northeast. The following person was arrested: 69-year-old Raymond Murray, of Lakewood, NJ, of Possession of an Open Container of Alcohol and Possession of a BB gun. CCN: 25-102-411