Fairfax County police have identified the man they believe is responsible for a string of butt-slashing cases at area retail stores, but are still trying to track him down. An arrest warrant on a charge of malicious wounding has been issued for 40-year-old Johnny D. Guillen Pimentel, said Lucy Caldwell, a police spokeswoman.
Nine cutting incidents were reported at Fairfax County stores between February and July. Young women in their teens and early 20s reported that someone used a box cutter or razor to cut their buttocks.
Caldwell said Guillen Pimentel is charged in one of the slashings that occurred this summer, but would not specify the case.
Police linked Guillen Pimentel to the cuttings through a citizen’s tip.
“We blanketed the community with thousands of fliers,” Caldwell said. Someone saw a poster about the slashing suspect and called police, she said.
Authorities are still looking for Guillen Pimentel, and believe he might have left the area. The last reported slashing incident occurred July 25, and Caldwell said it’s possible Guillen Pimentel has been gone from the D.C. area for several weeks.
She said authorities don’t know whether he has remained in the greater Washington region.
Caldwell wouldn’t say where Guillen Pimentel was living. Court records show he was living in Fairfax in 2008, when he was found guilty of violating a noise ordinance.
Police originally thought that one man was involved in five cutting cases, but after photos of the suspect and descriptions of the incidents were released in late July, four more women who didn’t initially report their cases to police came forward.
Slashings were reported at stores at the Fair Oaks Mall, Greenbriar Shopping Center, Tysons Corner Mall and Fairfax Towne Center.
The assaults put some shoppers on edge. Police distributed posters about the incidents to area businesses, stationed extra officers at local malls and formed a task force to share information with other jurisdictions.
Police said Guillen Pimentel might be driving a blue 2003 Honda Civic with the Virginia license KLX2689.
Anyone with information can call police at 703-691-2131 or Crime Solvers at 866-411-TIPS (8477).
