ROANOKE TIMES

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, August 17, 1994                   TAG: 9408170060
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C6   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: FAIRFAX                                 LENGTH: Short


MAN, 75, CHARGED IN RAPE

Police have charged a 75-year-old Falls Church man with one count of rape and two counts of abduction.

Anthony Grieco was arrested Monday in connection with the Jan. 11 abduction and rape of a 40-year-old woman who was taken from a bus stop.

Fairfax County police also charged Grieco with the brief abduction of a 58-year-old woman last week from a shopping center parking lot.Police spokesman Warren Carmichael said the age of the suspect is unusual for such a case.

Police said that in the Jan. 11 incident, the assailant forced the woman into his car and took her to a secluded Falls Church location, where he sexually assaulted her.

In the second attack, the woman was walking through the Merrifield Plaza parking lot when she was grabbed from behind and shoved into a car. She escaped unharmed, police said.

Grieco was being held on $75,000 bail at the Fairfax County jail. Police would not say what led them to Grieco.

- Associated Press


Memo: shorter version ran in the Metro edition.

by CNB