WASHINGTON — It appears that the District has been taking notice of noncompliant food trucks near the National Mall, towing away 32 trucks and issuing 46 citations.

The crackdown by the DC Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection (DLCP) came after WUSA9 exposed a National Mall food vendor who was charging $22 per ice cream cone, according to receipts from an Arlington woman who had been visiting with her children.

"I said, 'Can I get four ice cream cones vanilla?' and I said, 'How much is that?' and he just turned around and started doing, you know, getting it together," Melissa Hayes explained in April.

And since then, DLCP told WUSA9 they've received 67 complaints related to vending in the area.

Well, it turns out this "bad vendor behavior" extends beyond pricing as the DC

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