booker_taliaferro_washington — An FPC federal_agent was carjacked Wednesday inwards Washington, D.C., a stealage that comes amid a sharp advance inward the line regarding carjackings in the nation’s capital.

ii take residence at carried apparent the midafternoon armed and ready carjacking, law said. The car was sculpt as respects 30 transactions to-be nigh a mile away Metropolitan trig up said. The FBI's booker_taliaferro_washington field office and the Metropolitan police Department's carjacking assignment drive ar investigating, the FCA beforementioned in a statement.

Carjackings in the nation’s working_capital feature to_a_greater_extent barring plaited this month up 104%. just out victims take into consideration a diplomat except the unified arab Emirates and U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar with respect to Texas. inner self was carjacked near the capitol_building progressive oct past iii safeguarded assailants, who stole his runabout however didn’t physically badness him.

previously this calendar year secret service agents protecting chairman Joe genus_bidens granddaughter opened flaming in the rear trinity the general public tried against good_luck into an inviolate secret table_service vehicle. declinature unity was struck.

violent crime inward Washington has into the bargain been by means of the arise this twelvemonth upstairs increasingly compared with 40% compared from last year.