Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.news From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: District's most-wanted man arrested Date: Sat, 14 Nov 92 16:22:11 EST Message-ID: \SE A;METROPOLITAN \HD District's most-wanted man arrested \BY Brian Reilly \CR THE WASHINGTON TIMES District and federal authorities yesterday ended a monthlong manhunt with the arrest of a suspected drug gang leader who is accused of killing a police informant and is wanted in connection with a LeDroit Park triple murder. Antone Richard White, 20, was the city's most-wanted man and may be responsible for a number of murders, other violent crimes and widespread drug distribution in Northwest, Metropolitan Police homicide officials said. He was arrested by members of an undercover task force formed after Arvell Williams, 24, a LeDroit Park gang member working as a police informant, was shot more than 20 times Oct. 6 in the 1800 block of Second Street NW. Mr. White was charged yesterday with that murder. Investigators said they believe Mr. White also ordered the Election Day shooting of three men who were killed in a car in the 500 block of T Street NW. Two boys, ages 15 and 16, have been arrested and charged with those murders. Mr. White and two other suspects were arrested without incident in the 1200 block of Massachusetts Avenue NW at 2:15 p.m. yesterday, 15 minutes before the commander of the homicide branch was scheduled to hold a news conference to ask for public help finding Mr. White. Police have not identified the two other men, and they have not been charged. A special team of 3rd District officers assigned to the LeDroit Park neighborhood arrested the three men. Capt. Wyndell Watkins, commander of the homicide branch, said yesterday's arrest was the culmination of an intense investigation by the Redrum joint task force, a group of homicide and Drug Enforcement Administration investigators assigned to drug-related murders. "I suspect that this arrest will have a significant impact on violence in that community," Capt. Watkins said. "He's a pretty interesting fellow." Mr. White, of the 1900 block of First Street NW, was arrested early this year in the New Year's Day killing of Gregory O. Jackson. But after holding Mr. White without bond for nearly eight months without a grand jury indictment, Judge Harold Cushenberry set him free on a $4,000 surety bond and established a 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. curfew. Mr. White, who lived in LeDroit Park with his grandmother and has one child, was allowed to stay out until 11 p.m. on weekends and was ordered to take weekly drug tests. A month later, on Sept. 10, prosecutors dismissed the murder charge against him. * Catherine Toups contributed to this report. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM