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WTTG Fox 5 News Ten June 18, 2016

Right now at 10. Police are linking this man to several attacks against women iw northern virginia. They say hes been strikeing for nearly a decade. I found glass down the hall way so this stuff really came in and rick company shade every where. Creeping cleaning up after yesterday. In less than one week after the orlando nightclub massacre two active duty marines are under ud investigation for social media posts threatening gay bars. Fox 5 local news at 10 starts right now. We begin tonight with thegin arrest of a man believed to be a sexual predator in northern visit im tony perkins. Im sarah simmons. Ah Police Arrested this woodbridgew man several potential abductions. Fox 5 tisha lewis joins us lives with that story. Reporter sara are talking about 34 year old justin pow, he will have his day in court. C women across arlington are are breatheing release. He was a juvenile probation officer in Fairfax County his network was widespread thats why Police Believe that could be more victims. He was arrested and charged with two counts of attempted abduction for his rolr in a tax stemming from 2007 as recent its a as may of thishis year. He is currently being heldel without bond. Ond. More charges are expected heres why. Police sapo is also responsible for an attack this year. May 15th shortly before five am a woman woke up to an unknown man sexually assaulting her. It happened on the seven hung h block of north edge wood street following attack, the suspect believed to be poe, fled the fl seen and the victim was able to able to connect the cases and the using forensic evidence. We received dna evidence in d that case. C that evidence was submitted to the state crime lab. We received that back and linked it back to a 2007 case. Reporter now, once police were able to link the 2007 and 2016 cases they say he they reviewed cold cases, crime scens evidence and also lab tori results. The review led to dish information is it led detectives to poe he was arrested at his home in woodbridge. Dge. Tisha lose fox 5 local news. To fight police are touching a teenager. A 16 Year Old Girl was walking near the 26 hundred block of arlington boulevard when a man approached her, reached up her dress and touched her inappropriately. When the teenager scream, the suspect fled the scene. If you kw crime, you are asked to call police. T a woman escapes after being trapped in her apartment by her husband foror nearly three months. Police have charged her husband Michael David alston with false imprisonment and reckless endangerment, this after his aft wife told police she was locked in the comes apartment since march particular. Police say he locket apartment h oint in side and outside. She did not haveein a key. Ms. Austin made her escape wednesday after her husband fell asleep and other couch withoutho locking the front door. Fox fives in Montgomery County tonight wherfie a woman s killed after crashing her car into a kree. Police are now investigatings whether these two crashes are related. Police say just before sevenven this morning, 71 year old victoria hitches was driving near randolph and kennel wicl when she drove off the road and a short time later just a pile away an suv crashed into a utility pole. Police arrested two people intwp the suv they are still looking are a third tonight. A witness tells us what he saw. They are sweeping the the neighborhood with k9 at this is. Police Say High speed was a factor in the crash. And they also found drugs inside the suv. No charges have been filed. Ed taking steps to prevent Sexual Violence on campus. This after a student at theer school says another student raped her. Alleged incident happened in march during school hours. Ours according to the police report,l the twoic had a previous sexual relationship. But the alleged victim says the mail student forced her to have sex. The alleged incident happened in a bathroom in the athletic building. So far, no criminal charges have been filed. Ed. Fairfax county police have arrested a 53 year old man ma accused o child. Joe seven was arrested today and charged with taking indecent liberties with a child and aggravated sexual battery. Alleged victim is only ten years old. Police tell fogs five he is an acquaints of the victims family jostle 82 clean up efforts began ed today after yesterdays storms. Middleburg virginia in loudoun i county was hit the worse. Hundreds of cars are now waiting to be today because of damage from the large hailstorm. Taker a look at thisge damage. Hail the size of golf balls poured down yesterday shattering windshields, denting the tops and sides of cars. Damaging buildings as well. One of the places hardest hitit was the second oldestly in middleburg its a structure nowts being used as a business. Two in the b main office, our front door. D i found glass even though none t of the windows in the back, two broken i found glass down the pal hallway this stuff came in and rick company shade where. Rich knoll window hand blown when i spoke with the gentlemene he was upset we can replace windows we cant replace the t hand blown glass. Thousands f customers in the dc area left without electricity last check pour to most people has been restored. Res yesterday we had a report hof a tornado0 in West Virginia gwen tells us things are not always what they seem. National Weather Service ser been out surveying many of thehe areas, so far they are saying they do not have any confirmed m reports yet of tornados. Na now, theyve also said that for martinsburg where this was that she have not gotten wind reports yet. Still a tba as far as this isis concerned. But you know what we did have five tornados warnings yesterday. If we go to my maps youll see. We had five tornado warnings yesterday. So far as i said national nat Weather Service saying none confirmed aset also we are talking about the size we had quarter size, baseball size hail, a lot of trees and power lines down because of the strong winds an a lot of localized flooding. Heres a look at some of thehe timelines when they did get some of that hail. Th take a quick look this is golf ball size hail. And you know weve got that in a lot of different locationsif across thefe area. That was 4 00 in the afternoon. And then this was middleburg they got only and inch an a half of hail shortly after that a few hours they reported through thar areaep golf ball size hail. Before you mount and middleburgg both reporting baseball size hail. Pretty good indication of what was happening. Things quitedden today. A lot calm. The calm the a the storm. Everything has moved well to thl south across our area. High pressure built in. That is holding. H for tonight 62 degrees. Deg a cant rule out patchy fog here r and there. Er comfortable conditions in the4 overnight hours. As far as the weekend isnd concerned were talking plenty of sunshine, sunny and dry forry the weekend. Of course we know its important for fathers day we are going to have temperatures into the low e to mid 80s on both days. Days. Full forecast just ahead. Back to you. Gwen thanks. Scary moments for a woman hikeing on the billy got trail. Rescue team swooped in to hurtei her she was apparently hurt during herwa height. She was air listed from the trail. Tr she suffered non life threatening injuries. That would make me pretty me nervous too. Ive been on that trail thert are some areas 82 being listedeg up in one of those basket you bs are being rescued but still. S we got new information about the orlando nightclub massacre the message he texted to his wife. Two a under investigation following a social media post threatening gay bars. Action that they now face. Two eye witnesses jump intop action after they saw a truck tu slam into a historic bridge ande badly damage it. Ge how they stopped the driver ahead at 10. Today some past 49 victims ot last weekends deadly nightclub shooting were laid to rest. Avenue loved once paidd tribute were learning detailseti about the killers pant what heht did in the months leading up to the attack. U. After being shot three times byt the killer at pulse nightclub sunday morning angel cologneel thank the Police Officers who pulled him through broken glass and blood to safety. S i wanted to see the man thatt took me out of that horrible place that was filled with craziness. I was happy. I was so happy officer omar dealt granddaughter dough was one of self First Responders who entered the club. He pulled out four people. Ple. You only get one life im glad he can be with his family. And continue living his life an all because we all assisted him and getting him out. Reporter six victims remain in Critical Condition heree across or dan low backhoes areab diging graves. Three victims will be buried ata Green Wood Cemetery where the city waved the plot feign the filing fee. Local mer chance are donating flowers and lym seen services. Ve new details continue to emergeie about he texted his wife two hours hou into the attack. Asking if shed seen the news. His widow who admitted she new of his plans has yet to be yet t charged with a crime. We have also learned that weeks before the attack the killer stride to buy level three body armour, military grade from a a florida gun shop along with one thousand rounds of ammunition. The gun shop refused to sell him anything. Our intuition was correct. And its just, its very sad that we had him that close, he was that close that we Law Enforcement could have got their hands on him. Gun shop notified fbi but there was no name or purse order and the surveillances video was to grain knee. Reporter try to determine if the shooter may have had an accomplish. Ac st new tonight two active duty marines are under investigations over a Facebook Post that appeared to make threats against gay b a marine in uniform holding arrival. It is captioned coming to a gay bar near you. It was posted after sundays deadly shooter hadding. Sho the marine the one posted it have been identified, marine corps does not. Today marks the one year ane verse see had row of theh Charleston South Carolina shooting massacre. Massa Bible Study Group at a historics black Church Killing nine people. Hundreds gathered at charleston arena today to remember the victims. Prosecutor called the shooting a racially motivated hate crime. During the service South Carolina, held up programs that she kept since last summer from the funerals of victims. As they sat down to do their bible study, someone came in that didnt look like them. T didnt act like them. Hem. And didnt sound like them. T ive always been amazed by this because they didnt call security. They didnt throw him out. They exactly what everyone of us should do when someone different comes us to us. They pulled op chair and theyira parade with him for an hour. Shooting prompted thee governor to advocate for the removal of the code feather ratn flag from the state capital. Federal prosecutor are to seek the deaf empty at the trialt t later this year. R. Tonight a welcome surprisece for a dc Restaurant Owner after the rainbow flag that he had outside of his business wasusin burned over the moments ago james woods was presented with a new rainbow flag by members of the adams ad morgan unit. Nit. They sprang into action. James pictured on the left is standing with his best friend jason keller, jason gave james the original flag a year ago. Meantime dc police are still trying to find out who was responsible for burning the b original flag. The owner james wood says he hung the flag last week to recognize and celebrate gay pride. Coming up a traffic accidenc that left on lookers mad in maryland. So they decided to do something about it. Lauren. Reporter its beautiful one of only eight bridges in in maryland a truck driver ran right through it severely damaging the structure. S witnesses took action until the Police Arrived weve got thehe story coming up. How one state trooper developed a campaign to lives using what was mow jeez. At well be right back fox 5 local news at 10. New at 10 major damage to a historic Covered Bridge in frederick county. Eric a man drove a truck which was too tall right through it. Self witnesses decided to follow him and it was all caught on camera. 5 Lauren Demarco has the story. Reporter this is a historic bridge. Its been standing here since 1856. One of only eight remaining Covered Bridges in the state of maryland. It had just been repaired after being hit last may. When witnesses saw it struck again they decided to take action. Heres the bridge we saw the truck. Reporter jim wolf talking to a 911 dispatcher as he drives. His son was reporting the wholei thing on his cell phone. P they witnessed that enterprise box truck keep going. So they and at least two other vehicles followed. Hes not stopping. Ng. Reporter during the seventh minute video you can see a pieca of the bridge fall off of thehe truck on to route 15. Wolf continued trailing the truck until other drivers helped surround it and an officer finally arrived. The driver of the truck david was arrested. He spoke with our sift station in baltimore saying it was an accident. And he left the scene out of fear for his safety. He says he stopped, but the confidentials and otherid witnesses tellen us that 23 nevr even slowed down. I stopped i thought theseed guys were trying to help me they were like a angry mob trying tom yank me out my truck. My you know they were curseing atg me and stuff like that. So, i tried to go to the nearest main road, you know, so, it could be more witnesses and stuff to see what was going on. Absolutely did not stop. P. Probably like a three foot piece sticking out the side truck of wood that was it o in the lapse while he was drivinghi up the highway peoplele was trys too tell him to pull over but he won pull over. That was very dangerous. Us. Definitely only thing we wanted to do is get him pulled over for everybodys sake. And for this right here, you know take responsibility for this. Reporter there are warnings and height restrictions signs approaching the bridge and the structure itself but that didnt help. 160 year old bridge now closedw until emergency repairs can be made. E area remains littered with da brian support beams have beet pu up. As for collins junior he was he was held overnight and release owed on bond. Fairmont maryland lauren demarcn fox 5 local news. We have a great story to tell did you ann arundel county two firefighter went above the call of duty during jessup. Ssup rescued a person who had fallen while repairing a roof. The person was, both firefighters stayed behind atd the home and finished putting up the rest shingles while the victim was transported to the hospital. Thats amazing. Thats insane thats great. I love hearing these stories, going above and beyond the call of duty. Concluded doses to those two. Most of us use emojis in every day Text Messages a trooper in South Carolina iss using them to save lives. Trooper bob burris got the idea to post safety messages using emojis on twitter after seeinger people drive around barriers and then calling to be rescued. Hit tweets caught attention of Highway Patrol who then started no drinking and driving Campaign Based on his week style. Now his billboards all across the state. This says match is really un verse rail my mom is from hungrn speaks no english when i showed her the billboard she said dond drink and drive i said if my mom gets this anybody can get it. It is catching on he has eighthe thousand followers on twitters. I love it. In thats great. Stilln ahead, a heart wrenching story of a daughters love for her mothers. As the counter down to the longest day were bringing you the story how alzheimers affects people of alf inches. And tell you how you can helpouc raise awareness and money to m fight the incurable disease. Into back now with a look at lo tonights top stories into wetoi begin with tisha lewis life in arlington where she arrested a sexual predator. Reporter justin poe will w have his day in court. For now hes behind bars after Police Charge him with two counts of attempted abduction. Dating back to 2007. Police believe he may be b responsible for a case thatase happened here in arlington last month. Police confirm that poe was a juvenile probation officer for Fairfax County and locks fivend local news is hearing he may have been a social worker at a dc Public School. They think there could be more victims that and more coming up. Montgomery county police are investigating two strange carg t accidents in Silver Spring s entering. 71 year old woman was killed when her car was ran off the road, a short time later a milee away an suv crashed into a pollp Police Arrested two people in the suv still looking for a third. They want to know if th crashes are related. Clean up in loudoun countyoy after yesterdays severe storms. This is what is left behind in middleburg. Hail the size of golf boys powered down yesterday. Ay. Hundreds of vehicles are nownow weighing to be today because ofs that damage. Fox5ddcares is partner ring with Alzheimers Association as it gets ready for its big fo fundraising event called theg ev longest day of the the longest day is monday, june 20th, thats next monday, it is in fact the longest day because it is the summer sough starks well tellks you how to get involved in a few minutes. All this week we are sharing stories with people who are dealing with alzheimers and other forms of dementia. Dem today we meet 24 year old megan newman e. Megans mom is living with alzheimers, something she never thought shed experience at such a young lathe age. Into my mom she was just kind of a force to be reckoned with growing up. She was really smarter. She was really sarcastically always had an opinion and something to say. As i got older, we grew really close.

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