Overview
- A beer keg was thrown through the bakery’s front window around midnight on May 18, causing about $10,000 in damage and startling employees who were inside but leaving no reported injuries.
- D.C. police arrested 28-year-old Charles Joseph Ali of Rockville and charged him on May 21 with felony destruction of property for the Georgetown Cupcake incident.
- Georgetown Cupcake and nearby businesses circulated surveillance footage showing a man grab a keg and smash the glass, and officials say community tips and that video led investigators to the suspect.
- The shop reopened hours after the attack with a plywood-covered window, and the owners said the lone employee who encountered the suspect was shaken though physically unharmed.
- MPD is still investigating a separate April 24 vandalism on the 1900 block of M Street and has not confirmed a connection, a development that has heightened local concern about late-night property crimes and the value of neighborhood cameras.