Monday, February 4, 2013
Washington, DC government is looking for companies to transform the former military hospital into a mixed-use development, according to the Washington Business Journal.
The government of the District of Columbia is moving forward with plans to redevelop 67 acres of Walter Reed, former Army medical center, according to a report from the Washington Business Journal. Walter Reed is just south of Silver Spring, in the upper Northwest neighborhood of Shepherd Park. The District envisions a plan for townhomes, condos and apartments along with retail and office space that will cost about $640 million. A request for qualifications was issued, which invites development companies to the first stage of what will be a lengthy process to award the contract. The developer chosen will be announced in July. “Thus far we’ve had an incredibly robust planning process, but we still have a vacant parcel,” Muriel Bowser, …
Thursday, October 25, 2012
The incident involving a gun being fired by a Navy official at Walter Reed snarled traffic for hours and created chaos on Rockville Pike.
A woman charged in a two-state car chase and traffic melee involving gunfire outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda was released from a psychiatric ward days before the incident, the Gazette reports. The woman, identified by police as Angela A. Cobbold, 27, of Manassas, VA, was released from a mental facility Oct. 19 and apparently had not taken prescribed medicine, The Gazette reported, citing statements made at Cobbold’s Wednesday bond review hearing by Montgomery County Assistant State’s Attorney Peter Feeney. Cobbold has been charged with first degree assault, according to Montgomery County police. Feeney said Cobbold had a “significant psychiatric history,” The Gazette reported. A judge ordered a mental …
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Police say Angela Akosua Cobbold led police on two car chases and rammed her car into a security vehicle near a Walter Reed Bethesda gate, where a Navy security officer fired his gun.
A 27-year-old Manassas woman lead police on two car chases along streets in Virginia, Bethesda and Rockville Tuesday, police said, and rammed her car into a security vehicle near a Walter Reed Bethesda gate, where a Navy security officer fired his gun. Angela Akosua Cobbold of the 7800 block of Blue Gray Circle in Manassas was being evaluated at a hospital Tuesday afternoon following the incident, during which police said she was seen attempting to eat a bar of soap. Police say one shot was fired but no one was hit after Cobbold backed into the security vehicle near the North Gate of Naval Support Activity Bethesda, the campus of the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, just before noon. One Navy security officer suffered non-life…
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Police say a shot was fired by a Navy official after a woman tried to hit an officer with her car.
Updated 4:20 p.m. Police have released the name of the female suspect in a Tuesday afternoon incident in which a Navy official fired a gun outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Police say the woman rammed police and security vehicles with her car after a car chase from Virginia, then lead police on a second chase down Rockville Pike. Angela Akosua Cobbold, 27, of Manassas, VA, was in custody and being evaluated at a hospital after leading police on a chase from Walter Reed that culminated in a crash on Nebel Street in Rockville near the Harris Teeter. A Navy official fired a gun during the incident, after Cobbold attempted to use her vehicle to hit security vehicles, police said. The incident at Walter Reed began in …
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2:38 pm on Saturday, April 27, 2013
Reckless charges on an innocent who did not kill anyone but a boy picks up a gun and goes into school and kill many and his case is dispensed. more ›