Rick Yarborough is a journalist for NBC4 Washington, specializing in local news coverage in the Washington D.C. area. With a focus on investigative reporting, Rick covers a range of topics including crime, public safety, politics, and social issues impacting the community. Through his articles, he aims to provide in-depth analysis and shed light on important issues affecting the region.
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Rick Yarborough's coverage primarily focuses on crime, government and politics, as well as family and relationships in the local Washington D.C. area. His articles often cite data or provide expert commentary.
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By: Susan Hogan, Rick Yarborough, Jeff Piper
It’s a call that could make anyone panic. Someone on the phone says your loved one is about to be arrested for missing jury duty unless you pay up. It’s a scam. Law enforcement will never call you to demand money. But this brazen crime is making a resurgence in the D.C. area, and people are losing thousands. It recently…
By: Rick Yarborough, Ted Oberg
Three days after D.C.’s 911 system suddenly went down, D.C. blamed a technology contractor. A software update rolled out incorrectly caused the outage Friday afternoon. The 911 center and some users at D.C. police and D.C. Fire and EMS couldn’t access the dispatch system for hours, the District said. During that time, an infant suffering cardiac arrest died. D.C. said…
By: Jeff Piper, Rick Yarborough, Ted Oberg, Caroline Tucker
Seven years after hundreds of people were arrested in D.C. protesting Donald Trump's inauguration, those prosecutions are suddenly back in the
By: Susan Hogan, Rick Yarborough, Carlos Olazagasti
Checks are sold to the highest bidder on YouTube and Telegram, sometimes with matching IDs and debit cards, one expert told the News4 I-Team
By: Rick Yarborough, Katie Leslie, Steve Jones, Jeff Piper, Caroline Tucker, Ted Oberg
Here's what the News4's I-Team found in D.C. Office of Unified Communications data, including that an average of 202 people each day since July 1 hang up on 911 after waiting at least 15 seconds on hold
By: Rick Yarborough, Ted Oberg
Days after an Internal Affairs agent called News4 asking for names of confidential sources, D.C. police issued a division order to all Internal Affairs investigators to back off the practice.
By: Ted Oberg, Steve Jones, Rick Yarborough, Jeff Piper
Now is the time to try to pry loved ones away from extremist groups, experts told the News4 I-Team
By: Carlos Olazagasti, Rick Yarborough, Ted Oberg
In a court filing this week, one-time D.C. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Kerkhoff Muyskens denied any wrongdoing while prosecuting hundreds of protesters arrested in D.C. during Donald Trump’s 2017 inauguration.
By: Rick Yarborough, Tracee Wilkins
When people in the District are sentenced to longer sentences, they can be held in federal prisons anywhere in the country. For more than a year, the News4 I-Team has investigated how some of those inmates say they’re often targeted. Since the I-Team started looking into the issue, the recent deaths of two D.C. men were listed as homicides.
By: Tracee Wilkins, Steve Jones, Rick Yarborough
Few of the 136,805 stops resulted in gun seizure Tens of thousands of people are stopped and frisked by D.C. police each year without a
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