An arrest has been made in an armed Reston home invasion that happened more than a month ago that police never bothered to share with the public, since it didn't involve a comically inept but athletic bank robber who needs to ask for bags to carry away his money, yet still hasn't been caught.
On Jan. 24 at 4 a.m., an armed, home-invasion robbery occurred on Reston Avenue in Reston, and Fairfax County police have charged a Centreville man in connection with that offense. He is Nino Justice Pascal, 27, of 6161 Strasburg Drive in The Meadows community.This follows the most recent arrest of a 18-year-old wanted for murdering his stepmother last year, which Fairfax County Police took nearly three weeks to make public. How are
In a Feb. 2 affidavit for a warrant to search Pascal’s home for possible evidence of that crime, robbery Det. Eric Deane wrote that a firearm was used "to perpetrate the robbery and assault the victim" who sustained a laceration to his head. Wrote Deane: "The blood from the victim is believed to be on the clothes of the suspect who caused this injury."
Following an investigation, police arrested Pascal on Jan. 26, charging him with robbery, malicious wounding, abduction with intent to extort money, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The last charge stems from the fact that authorities believe Pascal used a pistol to assault the victim, and because, on March 24, 2006 in Circuit Court, he was convicted of a felony — distribution of a Schedule I controlled substance.
According to Deane, "The handgun described by the victim and two witnesses in the [January] robbery is a dark, semi-automatic pistol. This firearm has not been recovered, to date." Police hoped to find that weapon, as well as any clothing belonging to Pascal that might have contained traces of blood. But when they searched his home, Feb. 6, they did not seize anything.
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