Arlington police said they arrested an active-duty Marine who allegedly tried to abduct a woman at gunpoint and is suspected of kidnapping and sexually assaulting another woman this weekend.
Jorge “George” Torrez, 21, was arrested Saturday night by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service at the Henderson Hall Marine Corps facility in Arlington, police spokeswoman Detective Crystal Nosal said.
Torrez, who was held without bail, was charged with abduction and robbery after police said he used a handgun to try to force a woman into a car Feb. 10. The victim resisted, and Torrez fled with her purse, police said.
Police said they suspect Torrez may have abducted and sexually assaulted another woman early Saturday morning.
“It’s a high probability,” Nosal said.
At about 4 a.m. Saturday, a man confronted two young women in the Ballston area, forced them into a house and restrained them, police said. One of the women was able to call 911 from her cell phone seeking help, police said.
One of the two women was forced into a car and later found “left for dead” in Prince William County, Nosal said. She had been sexually assaulted and suffered serious injuries, police said. She was taken to a hospital.
Nosal said the victims appeared to be chosen at random in what she described as a “crime of opportunity.”
Officials from NCIS, the Navy’s law enforcement branch, picked up Torrez at Henderson Hall on Saturday evening as he was about to leave the base, Nosal said.
Details about Torrez’s rank in the Marine Corps were not immediately available, as Marine officials could not be reached for comment.
Nosal said the similarity between Torrez and the composite drawing made after the attempted abduction is striking. She added that the description given to police regarding Saturday’s crime — a white Hispanic male in his early 20s, 5 feet and 5 or 6 inches tall, weighing 160 pounds with short dark hair — match Torrez’s description.
Anyone with additional information should contact police at 703-228-4245.
