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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

This Week in Crime: New Incident on Reston Paths, A Gunpoint Abduction, and the Hamburglar Heads For Greener Pastures?

As predictable as the changing of the seasons, a new report of a suspicious incident on a South Reston path surfaced on Friday.

A Reston woman told police she was chased by a man while walking her dogs on the Reston paths between Steeplchase Drive and Triple Crown Road Friday afternoon.

The woman says the man - about 5-foot 11, in his late 20s or early 30s and wearing a tan hat - first was walking toward her and she said hello to him about 2:45 p.m. A few minutes later, he was running after her, she said, and reportedly making an obscene gesture. The woman says she screamed and ran away, and the man ran the other direction. She called police and reported the incident.
Similar incidents happened last spring, which led to rumors linking the alleged suspect to the "East Coast Rapist" -- though police quickly stressed that there was no connection between the incidents. Thanks to the awesome crime-fighting tool known as Facebook, though, we have a secondhand account of the most recent incident. As with everything on Facebook, except for maybe the Farmville posts, there's no way of verifying this information, but for what it's worth:
The man was in a grey hoodie, and wearing a skullcap. He ran at her, holding his genitals, and came all the way to her, shushing her right in her face. They were inches apart, but she kept screaming and he then stopped shushing her, turned and ran back the other way. She had passed him walking, and greeted him, 3-4 minutes before he reversed direction and began running at her.
Meanwhile, a man was abducted at gunpoint by three men on Sunrise Valley Drive last Wednesday night:
A 47-year-old man was abducted by three men and held at gunpoint on Wednesday, October 6 around 10:10 p.m. in the 12000 block of Sunrise Valley Drive. An investigation determined the suspects used the victim to gain entry into a building and steal several televisions from inside. Police are investigating. The victim did not require medical attention.
Last week's regionwide roundup of illegal immigrants who had been convicted of sex crimes included "a 31-year-old Salvadoran, arrested in Reston, who had failed to register as a sex offender, as required by law. The man had been convicted of having carnal knowledge of a child between 13 and 15 years old." Can't say we'll be sorry to see him go.

Finally, it seems as if the North County Hamburglar (tm) may have moved on to greener pastures -- or at least Prince William County. While not confirming this, Fairfax Police did say in another awesome crime-fighting forum, a fancy "on-line chat" held last Friday, that the last known incident in Fairfax County was on Oct. 1. Since it was an online chat, they also didn't say that OMG, Justin Beiber was totally their BFF, LOL the end.

16 comments:

  1. I feel sorry for you folks in South Reston.
    But I suppose that every town has to have a "bad area". I'm glad I live in the 20194 zip code!

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  2. Prince William County is "greener pastures?"

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  3. Gulag: because Cabrini Green doesn't have anything on us.

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  4. Waterford

    http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=2074571

    If it's the same guy, he doesn't spend a lot of time casing out a neighborhood before he hits.

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  5. I felt just as safe living in 20191 as I do living in 20194...both have nice spots, both have not-so-nice spots.

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  6. dammit, why isn't Reston a perfect utopia, free of all crime and sorrow??

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  7. Where are the not-so-nice spots in 20194?

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  8. "why isn't Reston a perfect utopia, free of all crime and sorrow??"

    Because Leftist imbeciles insist on "diversity" and "affordable housing".

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  9. "I feel sorry for you folks in South Reston.
    But I suppose that every town has to have a "bad area". I'm glad I live in the 20194 zip code!

    What arrogance! Don't feel sorry for us here, we love the challenge of getting along with people from other backgrounds -- a talent we all need when our high school kids (and yours) get to SLHS or Herndon and find out that there ARE kids of different colors in the world. My kids become friends with them. Your kids will hide in the sameness of the protective bubble they grew up in.

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  10. "What arrogance! Don't feel sorry for us here, we love the challenge of getting along with people from other backgrounds -- a talent we all need when our high school kids (and yours) get to SLHS or Herndon and find out that there ARE kids of different colors in the world. My kids become friends with them. Your kids will hide in the sameness of the protective bubble they grew up in."

    My kids wont be going to SLHS or Herndon. I live in the 20194 zip code, that means that I can afford private school.So while your kids become friends with "them", my kids will be on their way to the Ivy League. Nuff said.

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  11. "a talent we all need when our high school kids (and yours) get to SLHS or Herndon and find out that there ARE kids of different colors in the world."

    The lesson they find out the same day is that yes, there are kids of different colors in the world, but they should be avoided at all costs. Few kids truly relish the challenge of struggling to preserve your life and your possessions while at the same time trying to learn something.

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  12. 20194 kids are the craziest, yuppie pre-alchoholics. good luck with that hot mess.

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  13. People like anon 7:10 are why we need to tax the h*?! out of the rich.

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  14. "20194 kids are the craziest, yuppie pre-alchoholics. good luck with that hot mess."

    And south reston kids are gang bangers and crack heads. They "keep it real" down there. Lots of baby mommas and fatherless children are in store for you.

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  15. "People like anon 7:10 are why we need to tax the h*?! out of the rich."

    LOL at the idea of anyone in Reston being "rich". High income =/= wealth.

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  16. If you don't think of 20194 as being affluent, then your gaze is too steadily fixed on Great Falls.

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