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WASHINGTON (Map, News) - The man arrested for allegedly assaulting a woman in Falls Church on Wednesday night is a registered sex offender who was convicted of rape and sexual battery in two separate Fairfax County court cases.
Local investigators say David Lee Foltz, 40, is also a suspect in 11 other similar attacks in Fairfax County, Alexandria and Falls Church.
“We are definitely interested in questioning him,” Falls Church spokeswoman Nicole Gobbo said.
According to Fairfax County records, Foltz’s prior convictions for rape and sexual battery came in 1990. Virginia records show he was registered as a sex offender in the state in 1998.
Fairfax County police officers were patrolling the 600 block of Hillwood Avenue at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday when they saw Foltz allegedly assault a female victim from behind and drag her into the woods.
The officers detained him until Falls Church police arrived and charged him with abduction with intent to defile and sexual battery.
Foltz told an Arlington County judge Thursday that he did not understand the charges.
“All I did was tackle her,” he said.
Foltz was being held in Arlington County Jail on Thursday.
Eleven sexual assaults have occurred in the Fairfax-Alexandria area since August, the most recent of which occurred Tuesday when a 29-year-old Falls Church woman was assaulted while walking on Lee Highway in Falls Church.
tluntz@dcexaminer.com
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8:57 AM MST on Mon., Feb. 18, 2008 re: "Suspect in assault is a sex offender"
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nobody anymore said:
Protecting our rights by taking others away, this seems unending. Yesterday it was sex offenders and D.U.I. offenders. Today it's terrorists. Tomorrow it's any felon. The day after it's non-tax payers and child support slackers. Then people who don't vote or anarchist, misdemeanor offenders of specific crimes. Which is the case now really, 90% of sex offenses were misdemeanors and many of which now consider you a "predator" with life long sentences,loss of rights, not to mention their families safety. Don't pretend it's not true, one innocent man was killed by a vigilante who went to the wrong house, let alone the wrong person. So if you think about it like this, how many more laws will be deemed "serious"? Think firearm offenders, intoxicated offenders, driving or vehicular offenders, monetary offenders, identity offenders, or even parental offenders. Right now Political offenders are secretly charged and sentenced and sent to "political prisons" for an undetermined limit of
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