More than 550 arrests procedure at DC during the repression of Trump’s crime since August

First on Fox: More than 550 arrests were carried out in the national capital in the repression of the crime of President Donald Trump who started earlier in August, in particular officials recovering illegal firearms and removing street drugs, photos shared with Fox News Digital Show.

Local police and federal agents of the city’s law enforcement have made more than 550 arrests since August 7, including the apprehensions of three known gangbangers, one of which was a member of the MS-13, according to the White House data provided Wednesday in Fox News Digital.

“Thanks to President Trump’s bold actions to make DC again safe, more than 550 dangerous criminals have been withdrawn from the streets of the capital of our country,” said White House spokesman Taylor Rogers, in Fox News Digital on Wednesday arrests.

“While the false news tried to sell a lie that DC was safe, these arrests reveal the truth,” she continued. “Hundreds of violent criminals have been arrested by federal law enforcement agents to carry illegal weapons, distribute deadly drugs, commit an armed robbery and have links with dangerous gangs like MS-13. President Trump is once again by applying the law and daily Americans support his common sense, difficult policies.”

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More than 550 arrests were carried out in the national capital in the repression of the crime of President Donald Trump who started earlier in August in August (Alex Brandon / The Associated Press)

Tuesday evening’s city scanning included 91 arrests, Fox News Digital, including 25 arrests of illegal foreigners, learned. Many illegal foreigners arrested had previous criminal history, according to the White House, including multiple illegal revenues, and a threat to kidnap or injure a person, destruction of goods, burglary, possession of drugs and drunk driving.

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The White House exclusively shared photos of items recovered during Tuesday arrests, which included a backpack teeming with bags of confirmed illegal substances, handguns and a knife.

The White House told Fox News Digital that the police had eliminated substances extending from marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine and fentanyl of the DC streets since the start of the repression of the crime on August 7.

On the left: Photo of an illegal handgun recovered by the police in Washington, DC, the evening of August 19, 2025. On the right: photo showing a knife and illegal substances recovered during crime swallows in the national capital on August 19, 2025. (White House)

Everything in, the application of the law recovered eight illegal firearms on Tuesday evening and made arrests for crimes such as an assault against a police officer, an armed robbery, a pistol without a license, an assault with a deadly weapon, a conduct under the influence and for arrest periods in progress linked to the “mistreatment of children (death) and involuntary charges.

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A pair of photos showing a handgun recovered on the left and a bag of unidentified drugs on the right. (White House)

In total, 48 homeless camps across the city were deleted on Wednesday, Fox News Digital learned.

Trump has federal the Washington police department, DC, on August 11 in the midst of a trend of attacks and high-level murders in the city following the trends in wild crime that broke out during the notoriously bloody year of 2020. The most 550 arrests are part of the city of Mars of Trump, which established the free DC safe and Magnificent Task-Task, in August.

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Federal police and local DC police have made hundreds of arrests in Washington since August 7, Fox News Digital has learned. (Andrew Leyden / Getty images)

Hundreds of members of the National Guard, as well as the Metropolitan Police Department and the staff of federal agencies, such as the FBI, the Drug Encommon Administration, the Capitol Police and the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives office, have descended in the streets of DC to make swings and raising crimes. The National Guard does not arise, but helps the police to dissuade crime and protect the city.

There were more than 1,950 law enforcement officials who participated in Tuesday evening scales and arrests, Fox News Digital learned. Repression should continue to warm up, including the US Marshals service offering $ 500 awards to people who are able to provide advice that leads to arrests.

An all-terrain vehicle protected by the protected mine is parked next to Union Station in Washington, DC, on August 14, 2025, following President Donald Trump federalizing the city’s police service. (Fox News Digital / Peter Pinedo)

Democrats criticized Trump about the federalization of the city’s police service, saying that crime data show that violence is down.

Data on crime of the Metropolitan Police Department is currently under the survey of the Ministry of Justice in response to the affirmations that force has manipulated data to produce more favorable criminal trends in recent months, Fox News reported on Tuesday.

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Trump had threatened to federalize the DC police service in the weeks preceding its final decision, citing a handful of high-level crimes that rocked the city, including the deadly shooter of the 21-year-old trainee, Eric Tarpinien-Jachym, in June; The deadly shooting of a pair of Israeli embassy staff in May; And a brutal attack on a former staff member of the Ministry of Government Effectiveness earlier in August.

Trump defended the repression of the crime at a press conference on August 11, when he announced for the first time that he would federalize the local police service under article 740 of the Columbia Home Rule Act district, which allows the president to assume emergency control of the capital’s police for 30 days.

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“Our capital was overwhelmed by violent gangs and blood thirsty criminals, itinerant crowds of wild young people, drug addicts and homeless,” Trump said on August 11. “And we are not going to happen. We are not going to take it.”