Metro News Release

For immediate release: December 27, 2006

Police arrest Metrobus operator for allegedly having sex with minor

Theophilis Ammon Burroughs, Jr., a part-time bus operator, has been arrested on a warrant and charged with first degree child sexual abuse in connection with allegedly having sex with a minor on a Metrobus last week. He is expected to appear in DC Superior Court today for prosecution.

The complainant, a 15-year-old female, reported the incident to a witness, who assisted her in making a report to the Metro Transit Police. Burroughs and the young girl allegedly engaged in sexual intercourse in the bus after it finished its afternoon run shortly after 6 p.m. on December 19. On the way back to the Bladensburg Bus Garage, the bus stopped in Northeast, DC, where the incident is alleged to have taken place. The bus was originally operating the Route 97, known as the East Capitol Street-Cardozo Line.

Burroughs has been working at Metro since November 5.

Metro Transit Police detectives have been conducting an investigation and questioning witnesses since the juvenile reported the incident.

News release issued on December 27, 2006.