East Coast Rapist suspect indicted in Loudoun
A Loudoun County grand jury has indicted the man authorities say is the East Coast Rapist, responsible for attacks on 17 women in four states since 1997.
Court records show the grand jury indicted 39-year-old Aaron H. Thomas on charges of rape, abduction with intent to defile, and forcible sodomy.
Those charges stem from a May 24, 2001, attack in Leesburg. Thomas is accused of threatening a 41-year-old woman in her apartment with a screwdriver, tying her up and raping her.
Thomas was apprehended in Connecticut this month. The assaults linked to the East Coast Rapist have been reported in Maryland, Virginia, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
1 injured in gas station fire
D.C. fire officials are investigating a fire at a Georgetown-area gas station that injured one worker and clogged up morning traffic Tuesday.
Around 8 a.m., fire officials responded to a report of a fire on the 1500 block of Wisconsin Avenue near Q Street and found heavy fire and smoke coming from the garage of a one-story commercial gas station, said D.C. fire department spokesman Pete Piringer. One of the gas station employees was taken to a hospital with minor burns.
Skeletal remains found
Fairfax County police are investigating apparent human remains found in Lorton on Tuesday morning.
Police said a man walking on Furnace Road between Richmond Highway and Old Colchester Road found what appeared to be partial skeletal remains around 11:50 a.m. Preliminary investigation indicates the remains belonged to an adult, police said.
Emily Babay
