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News of crime and punishment in Fairfax County this week.
COUNTY POLICE ARREST MAN AFTER REPORTING SEXUAL ATTACK IN TYSONS: Fairfax County police arrested a 27-year-old man in connection with a reported sexual assault on a woman in Tysons on March 3rd.
The county police dispatched officers to the 1500 block on Cornerside Boulevard on March 4 to report a sexual assault the previous day.
The victim was sitting on a bench around 4 p.m. that day when an unknown man approached her, engaged her in a conversation and then allegedly sexually assaulted her, the police said.
The woman screamed and was able to walk. When she left, the man continued to follow her, the police said. A spectator saw the man follow her and accompanied her to a shop.
The man was seen in the area again on March 12 while detectives from the Police Department’s Major Crimes Bureau were working on the case. The officers replied and took Mohamed Souidi into custody without a fixed address.
Authorities have charged Souidi with sexual penetration and kidnapping and are detaining him at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center without commitment.
Detectives continue to investigate this case and seek public help. Given the time and location of the attack, detectives believe there may have been people in the area who unwittingly witnessed the crime, police said. FRIDGE FIRE IN GARAGE DAMAGE OAKTON HOME, VEHICLE: A defective refrigerator in a garage started a fire in Oakton on March 18, which destroyed a luxury vehicle.
The department sent the units to the single-family home on the 9900 block on Vale Road at 5:46 a.m. Arriving units found smoke from the garage of the two-story house and put out the fire. No civilians or firefighters were injured in the fire, officials said.
Three inmates were sleeping in the house when the smoke alarm went off and alerted them to the fire. The occupants saw smoke from the attached garage, evacuated the house and called 911.
Investigators found that the fire was inherently random and started in the garage. The cause of the fire was a malfunction in the refrigerator.
The fire displaced three inmates who refused to support the Red Cross. The fire caused $ 137,500 in damage, including a Lexus vehicle stored in the garage. DISTRICT MAN LOADED AFTER ATTEMPTED ROBBERY IN TYSONS: A male suspect approached a victim on the 1600 block of International Drive in Tysons at 11:30 a.m. on March 23, showed a knife and demanded property before leaving, Fairfax County police said With.
The responding officers arrested suspect Jason Stokes, 38, from Washington, DC, and the authorities have charged him with robbery. Woman drives off, parking spaces on the street after an incident with a restaurant: An employee of Chick-fil-A, 538 Maple Ave., W., informed the Viennese police on March 25th at 1:45 p.m. that a woman parked their vehicle in the driveway. through the line, went to the restaurant and started messy business.
When the clerk asked her to leave, the woman allegedly crawled out the drive-through window, kicked the manager and threw food at a customer, police said.
The woman then got back in her vehicle, drove onto Maple Avenue, parked her car on the street, and tried to get into a van that had stopped in traffic, police said. The woman got back in her vehicle and fled the area before officers arrived, authorities said. COUNTY POLICE TO DESTROY THE CANNONBALL FOUND BY MAN YEARS: A man who lives on the 600 block on Hine Street, SE, informed the Vienna police on March 23 at 2:59 p.m. that he had a cannonball that he had at his disposal wool.
The resident told police he found the cannonball in his back yard a few years ago.
The Vienna police officers responded, along with members of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team of the Fairfax County Police Department, who took the cannonball into custody for destruction. WIENER MANN SELLS THAT THE INFANT DAUGHTER’S DOCUMENTS ARE MISSING: A man who lives in the 1000 block of Fairway Drive, NE, told the Viennese police that between December 28th last year and March 25th, the birth certificate and social security card his little daughter in the home. ALREADY PROHIBITED WITH FEES, MAN BANNED FROM THE PROPERTY OF THE CREDIT UNION: A 58-year-old man was banished from the property of the Navy Federal Credit Union at 820 Follin Lane, SE, in Vienna after reportedly invading March 16 When he tried to escape the Vienna police from a series of commercial break-ins last night, the police said.
Vienna police arrested suspect Linwood Massie Jr. without a permanent address on the credit union’s property after he reportedly escaped from a residential building on Valley Drive, SE
Authorities have accused Massie of two cases of unlawful entry and two cases of burglary with the intent to commit theft. Massie will face trespassing charges if he returns to credit union property, police said. VANDAL SPRAY-PAINT WALLS OF VIENNA HOME UNDER CONSTRUCTION: A building contractor informed the Viennese police that on March 20, between 9:38 p.m. and 10:05 p.m., someone would enter a house under construction in the 300 block of Tapawingo Road, SE, and destroy its walls have spray paint. The thief sets out to take care of deliveries from the VIENNA DRUGSTORE: An employee from CVS, 337 Maple Ave., E., informed the Vienna police that someone was entering the store on March 22nd at 12:38 p.m. and stole razors and curling irons.