‘Operation Safe Summer’ Nabs More Than 10 Suspected Internet Predators

by RestonNow.com — June 30, 2017 at 11:15 am 11 Comments

A Reston man was among 11 people arrested during a recent partnership between the Fairfax County and Loudoun County police departments to catch suspected Internet predators.

Hatim Khalid Abdelrahman, a 22-year-old from Reston, was charged by FCPD earlier this month. He is being accused of arranging to meet a young girl with the apparent intent of having sex. According to a press release sent out Friday by the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office, Abdelrahman’s charges are “for communication with a minor under the age of 15 for the purpose of sexual contact and attempted indecent liberties.”

Other men similarly charged in the recent sting include:

Arthur L. Berrier, 62, of Ashburn
Ian M. Florance, 34, of Falls Church
Jack D. Guard Jr., 54, of Ashburn
Jeremy M. Hawkins, 26, of Point of Rocks, Maryland
Rajender Mahavadi, 36, of Sterling
Bhanu C. Muddam, 28, of McLean
Anishkumar Patel, 44, of Fairfax
Nathaniel C. Sams, 33, of Sterling
Avinash S. Thakoorie, 24, of Chantilly
James A. Zientek, 46, of Centreville

According to LCSO, “as part of ongoing online investigations on suspects identified through proactive operations, the suspects arrested during the investigation resided [in], or planned on traveling to, Loudoun County. The suspects were seeking to engage in criminal sexual activity with a person whom they believed to be a juvenile.”

In addition with the Fairfax and Loudoun police departments, “Operation Safe Summer” involved the FBI Washington Field Office Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force, the Northern Virginia Internet Crimes Against Children’s Task Force (ICAC) and its affiliated member agencies.

Mike M

Hatim Khalid Abdelrahman, 22 of Reston
Rajender Mahavadi, 36, of Sterling
Bhanu C. Muddam, 28, of McLean
Anishkumar Patel, 44, of Fairfax
Avinash S. Thakoorie, 24, of Chantilly

All that imported diversity has certainly enhanced our community.
K-Plum

As a community, we need to be more sensitive to Mr. Abdelrahman’s culture before we go imposing our laws on his beliefs.
- Sidewinder
  
  You’re kidding, right?
- 40yearsinreston
  
  Exactly
  Sharia law applies to all, even infidels
  The prophet, god bless him, married 6 year old girls
RestonAssurance

Gross! I wonder what their mothers have to say about that.
roxyrosedc

Are any additional details available about how they were communicating with young people?? As a parent, it would be helpful to learn actual facts so we know what to look for.

And as for those of you commenting on the ethnicity of certain names on this list, please keep your racist venom out of this community. And know that the vast majority of sex crime perps and domestic terrorists are white men.
- 40yearsinreston
  
  Islam and hinduism arent races
  - roxyrosedc
    
    Bob Simon must be rolling over in his grave at the xenophobia creeping into Reston and evidenced through your ignorance and xenophobia. This was a community that advertised in Jet and Ebony and intended to become a multi-ethnic and multi-racial place. You should be ashamed of yourself.
    - Mike M
      
      Who cares, Mother Superior?
      How about you answer my question?
    - Male Xenophobia Explained
      
      The concept of masculinity is dependent at its very root on the
      concepts of sexual repression and private property. Ironically, it
      is sexual repression and economic scarcity that give masculinity its main significance as a symbol of economic status and sexual opportunity. The shrinkage of the concept of man into the narrowed and hierarchical conceptions of masculinity of the various
      work and consumption ethics also goes hand in hand with an
      increasing social division of labor, and an increasing shrinkage of the body’s erogenous potentials culminating in a narrow genital
      sexuality. As we move from the simpler food-gathering societies
      to the agricultural society to the urbanized work and warfare society, we notice that it is a narrower and narrower range of
      activities that yield masculine status.
    - 40yearsinreston
      
      Religion has nothing to do with xenophobia or ethnicity
      I suggest you consult a dictionary before you get indignant
      Bob Simon has had nothing to do with Reston since the 70’s

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