Mini-crime wave lasts an hour About 1 a.m. one day last week, a resident in Northeast Washington heard the scrape of a garbage can being dragged down an alley, went to a window and spotted what apparently was part of a small-scale crime wave. The resident saw the can being pulled down the alley with a flat screen television set in it. There had been a burglary in the same 1900 block of First Street the week before. Neighbors were concerned and police were called. As it turned out, the burglary on First Street was one of five carried out in less than an hour in a few square miles of Northeast Washington on Friday morning, D.C. police said.All of them occurred between 1 a.m. and 1:45 a.m. Police said an officer spotted an automobile that he believed was connected to the burglaries. The vehicle was seen about two miles from the scene of the crimes and police apparently had information that aroused the suspicion of the officer, who was identified as Michael Littlejohn. Littlejohn tried to stop the car, police said, but the driver fled.Littlejohn managed to seize someone who police said had been a passenger in the car. Police said the car held items that they thought were taken during the early morning burglaries. They said a 17-year-old was charged in connection with the burglaries. His name was not immediately available. In addition to First Street, police the Friday morning burglaries occurred in the 1200 block of Oates Street, the 200 and 300 blocks of Douglas Street and the 1200 block of Kearney Street.