Crime & Safety
Arrests Made In Sexual Assault Case
Two suspects linked to Friday incident on Gallows Road, police say
Two men have been arrested for their alleged connection , Fairfax County police said in a statement today.
The two arrests came this week after "intense" police investigation, which included evidence collected at the scene, police said.
On Sunday, police charged Rivelino Villegas-Posada, 34, of no fixed address, with rape and aggravated malicious wounding.
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On Tuesday, police charged Jubencio Castro, 24, of no fixed address, with rape and aggravated malicious wounding.
The incident occurred around 1:10 a.m. Friday, when the two men allegedly struck a 50-year-old woman with a blunt object and sexually assaulted her behind a building on the 2400 block of Gallows Road, the neighborhood surrounding the road's intersection with the W&OD Trail.
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The men took cash from the woman before fleeing, according to police. The woman was taken to a local hospital for upper body injuries.
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