This Week in Crime: New Incident on Reston Paths, A Gunpoint Abduction, and the Hamburglar Heads For Greener Pastures?

As predictable as the changing of the seasons, a new report of a suspicious incident on a South Reston path surfaced on Friday.

A Reston woman told police she was chased by a man while walking her dogs on the Reston paths between Steeplchase Drive and Triple Crown Road Friday afternoon.

The woman says the man - about 5-foot 11, in his late 20s or early 30s and wearing a tan hat - first was walking toward her and she said hello to him about 2:45 p.m. A few minutes later, he was running after her, she said, and reportedly making an obscene gesture. The woman says she screamed and ran away, and the man ran the other direction. She called police and reported the incident.

Similar incidents happened last spring, which led to rumors linking the alleged suspect to the "East Coast Rapist" -- though police quickly stressed that there was no connection between the incidents. Thanks to the awesome crime-fighting tool known as Facebook, though, we have a secondhand account of the most recent incident. As with everything on Facebook, except for maybe the Farmville posts, there's no way of verifying this information, but for what it's worth:

The man was in a grey hoodie, and wearing a skullcap. He ran at her, holding his genitals, and came all the way to her, shushing her right in her face. They were inches apart, but she kept screaming and he then stopped shushing her, turned and ran back the other way. She had passed him walking, and greeted him, 3-4 minutes before he reversed direction and began running at her.

Meanwhile, a man was abducted at gunpoint by three men on Sunrise Valley Drive last Wednesday night:

A 47-year-old man was abducted by three men and held at gunpoint on Wednesday, October 6 around 10:10 p.m. in the 12000 block of Sunrise Valley Drive. An investigation determined the suspects used the victim to gain entry into a building and steal several televisions from inside. Police are investigating. The victim did not require medical attention.

Last week's regionwide roundup of illegal immigrants who had been convicted of sex crimes included "a 31-year-old Salvadoran, arrested in Reston, who had failed to register as a sex offender, as required by law. The man had been convicted of having carnal knowledge of a child between 13 and 15 years old." Can't say we'll be sorry to see him go.

Finally, it seems as if the North County Hamburglar (tm) may have moved on to greener pastures -- or at least Prince William County. While not confirming this, Fairfax Police did say in another awesome crime-fighting forum, a fancy "on-line chat" held last Friday, that the last known incident in Fairfax County was on Oct. 1. Since it was an online chat, they also didn't say that OMG, Justin Beiber was totally their BFF, LOL the end.