A man who worked with criminals at a Fairfax County probation office is now behind bars himself after police say he attacked women in Arlington, Virginia.
Arlington County Police arrested 34-year-old Justin Wingate-Poe, of Woodbridge, on Friday and charged him with two counts of attempted abduction for attacks that happened in 2007. Police said a sexual assault last month connected him to the crimes.
On May 15, a woman reported she woke up to find a man sexually assaulting her in her home in the 700 block of North Edgewood Street.
DNA evidence from the assault was linked to a fingerprint on a plastic bag from an unsolved attempted abduction on May 28, 2007 in which a man put the plastic bag over a woman's head in the 1100 block of North Vermont Street, police said.
The evidence was also connected to a similar attack that happened on June 7, 2007 when a woman heard a knock at her door in the 2600 block of Lee Highway. When she opened the door, a man tried to put a plastic bag over her head, police said.
Detectives identified Wingate-Poe as a suspect after linking the 2007 cases to the recent sexual assault.
A total of four attacks were reported that year.
Police are encouraging Arlington women to take a good look at Wingate-Poe's mugshot in case there were any other incidents involving him in 2007 or in the nine years since.
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"We believe that there are additional cases that he's most likely the suspect in, so we want people to take a look at him," said Ashley Savage, spokeswoman for the Arlington County Police Department.
Police anticipate Wingate-Poe will face additional charges in connection to the 2016 case.
Wingate-Poe has worked for Fairfax County since 2004 and underwent a criminal background check in 2013, county officials said. He was placed on administrative leave when the county learned of the charges, officials said.
According to Wingate-Poe's LinkedIn page, he also works for Access Youth Inc., a D.C. organization that helps at-risk teenagers.
He is currently being held without bond at the Arlington County Detention Facility.
