Police: Sexual Assault Reported Near Lorton Road
The following information was supplied by the Fairfax County Police Department. Arrests do not indicate a conviction.
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The following items are from recent police updates through Dec. 5 from the Franconia and West Springfield police districts of the Fairfax County Police Department.
Sexual Assault (blue on map), 7 p.m., 12/1/12, Lorton Road/Tea Table Drive, A 16-year-old girl was walking home when she was grabbed by an unknown man. He touched her inappropriately and fled. She was not injured.
In separate and unrelated incidents:
Assault (red on map), 11:20 a.m., 11/30/12, 8900 block of Lorton Station Boulevard, A bus driver allowed a man to ride free to doctor’s appointment because the man did not have exact change. The man reached his destination and argued with the driver. The man spit on the driver, punched him and fled. The driver was treated for minor injuries.
Burglary (green on map), 5:30 p.m., 12/3/12, 9600 block of Potters Hill Circle, A resident reported someone entered the home and stole a gaming system. Entry was made through an unsecured door.
Larcenies (yellow on map):
- 8100 block of McCauley Way - cell phone and jewelry from business
No vehicle thefts were reported at the time.
Sally Spangler
1:23 pm on Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Home "entries" are usually made through unsecured (unlocked) doors. We are no longer living in a rural area as we were in the 1950 and 60s, we are now in a suburban area with questionable fellow neighbors or maybe just wanderers looking to do mischief or worse. Hey, anybody reading this, especially youngsters at home waiting for their parents to come from work. - LOCK and KEEP LOCKED all entry ways! We cannot leave doors and windows open/unlocked! One of the reasons that the reformatory complex is no longer up on Laurel Hill, was that people became afraid of the prisoners walking away from the Reformatory/Workhouse. Take care of yourselves and your property! Crime still abounds!
Bobbi Ginnavan
9:02 pm on Tuesday, December 11, 2012
The Lorton Reformatory was closed years before Laurel Hills was even considered.
I agree Keep Doors Locked
Sally Spangler
12:49 pm on Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Hi Bobbi - The Reformatory was usually considered "On the Hill" The workhouse was considered as "Occoquan" Across the street where the Fairfax Water Company is now in their new buildings, was "The Woman's Division " The other name for the reformatory was "Lorton" The "Occaquan" was where their mail arrived and therefore, "Lorton" was where the Reformatory's mail arrived. I guess the Woman's Division got their mail from Occoquan, as they were a small part of the whole. My father worked for the Reformatory for 28 years. Laurel Hill - before becoming more than a woodsy, free area with a few houses closest to the road is now the crammed subdivision "Laurill Hills" complete with a set of houses as assisted - senior housing. Before, there was housing for the senior people of various departments of the Reformatory and Workhouse. The master plumber lived across Lorton Road in a house, much like the one we lived in. They were called "shotgun" houses as the living room was the closest to the road. Immediately behind the living room was the area for the dining room and behind that the small kitchen leading back to the back hall, from which were three bedrooms, bathroom and coal fired furnace. The humpbacked bridge over the railroad tracks was the original road from Lorton Road to US1.
Sally Spangler
12:52 pm on Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Lots more info on the whole business from 1904 to whatever year the whole operation closed and the Federal prisoners transferred to other Federal prisons.
Tammy Flanagan
3:23 pm on Thursday, December 13, 2012
Sally, the over-55 community on Silverbrook Road is not "assisted" living... it is very independent! You only have to be 55 to live there.. not 89!