Crime & Safety
Woman Arrested in DC 'Twerking' Incident: Police
The woman who police say committed Third Degree Sexual Abuse is from Las Vegas.
PHOTO: Image from convenience store surveillance camera shows two women accused in “twerking” incident and male victim. DC police released the video initially and them removed it from their YouTube channel.
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DC Police have made an arrest in a “twerking” incident that they say took place in a DC convenience store involving two women suspects and a male victim.
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Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Sexual Assault Unit announced Tuesday that they have made an arrest in the Third Degree Sexual Abuse offense, which occurred Oct. 7 in the 1700 block of New York Avenue, Northeast in Washington, D.C.
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On Tuesday, 22-year-old Ayanna Marie Knight of Las Vegas was arrested and charged with Third Degree Sexual Abuse, after officers from the First District were alerted to her location by an observant pedestrian, police said.
No word on the second woman seen in the video released by police.
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