On the bustling streets of the U Street Corridor, where commerce hums in the day, a series of burglaries cast a shadow over the neighborhood's nights. The Metropolitan Police Department brought an end to this series of crimes with the arrest of 31-year-old Samora Buchanan, a Northwest DC resident, connecting him to burglaries at several local businesses. Detailed in a release from the MPD, Buchanan's alleged spree includes unlawful entries and property thefts with incidents sprawling across multiple days.
Four burglaries, each marked by the brazen theft of goods, Buchanan purportedly struck in the pre-dawn hours when the streets were bare: his first on September 26 around 5:41 a.m. in the 900 block of U Street, followed swiftly by a September 27 offense at 1:42 a.m. in the 1400 block of T Street, and then, not satiated, he returned to the 900 block of U Street for the final two incidents on October 1 and 2, just minutes past 1 a.m. each time, the repetition almost as if it were a ritual, a sequence leading up to his eventual capture.
The break that aided MPD in solving this string of invasions came last Friday. Officers, bearing the authority of a DC Superior Court search warrant, entered Buchanan's abode and emerged with enough evidence for an arrest. Charged with four counts of Burglary Two, Buchanan is now removed from the streets where he allegedly sought his illicit gains and awaits the legal proceedings needed to determine his responsibility for these offenses.
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