Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, June 14, 1994 TAG: 9406140372
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: RON BROWN and TODD JACKSON STAFF WRITERS
DATELINE: FINCASTLE LENGTH: Medium
It was the second time this year that a teen-ager has reported being abducted and sodomized by a fake policeman. Police said the incidents may be related.
Both boys reported being abducted after visiting Valley View Mall.
The incident began late Friday on Virginia 311 in Roanoke County when the man pulled over a car with four teen-agers inside by flipping his high beams on and off. The man then approached the vehicle and said, "I want the boy in the black shorts," according to Botetourt County Sheriff Reed Kelly.
The man, who was not wearing a police uniform and did not display a badge, identification or a weapon, told the driver of the car he needed to take the boy back to "an establishment on Williamson Road " to discuss "an incident," Kelly said.
The boy then got into the man's car, and the suspect drove to the Mountain View Shopping Center in Cloverdale. He parked behind a grocery store and attempted to sodomize the boy.
At that point, a sheriff's deputy spotted the car and parked nearby. The suspect got out and asked the deputy, "I guess you want us to leave?" according to Kelly.
The boy told investigators he realized then the man was not a police officer, but was too scared to yell out.
The deputy, thinking the man was with his girlfriend, told them to leave, Kelly said.
After leaving, the man drove to a dead-end road off U.S. 11 north of Troutville. He told the boy to allow him to perform oral sex on him, or he would take him back to face the manager at the establishment on Williamson Road where the alleged incident had occurred, Kelly said.
At first the boy protested, but did as the man demanded when he became more threatening, Kelly said.
The man later dropped him off at a service station south of Buchanan and gave him a quarter to call home, Kelly said. He later contacted the sheriff's office .
Kelly said the suspect in Friday night's incident generally matches the description of a man who abducted a teen-age boy in the parking lot of Hechinger's near Valley View Mall on March 30.
In that incident, the suspect identified himself as a police officer, took the youngster behind the same Cloverdale grocery store and performed oral sex on him, Kelly said.
The teen-agers in Friday's incident had been at Valley View Mall earlier that night, Kelly said.
Roanoke police have a store surveillance videotape of the suspect from the earlier incident, but have been unable to reproduce it because of the poor quality of the film. The tape was even sent to NASA for processing to see if greater clarity was possible.
Monday, Roanoke County investigators were working on a composite of the suspect in hopes of identifying him.
by CNB