VIRGINIA BRIEFING

FAIRFAX COUNTY

Club Guard Accused of Rape

A security guard for a Fairfax County nightclub has been accused of raping a customer who was involved in a dispute at the club this week, Fairfax police said yesterday.

The incident began early Monday at the Las Vegas Club on Richmond Highway in the Huntington area. Police said the accuser, a 36-year-old Arlington woman, had been in an argument when the armed guard took her into custody about 1:25 a.m. and ordered her into his car.

Police said the guard had arrest powers and was purportedly driving her to a magistrate when he pulled over near Lockheed Boulevard and Fairchild Drive and sexually assaulted her.

The man released the woman, who then called for help from the 7300 block of Fairchild Drive. On Thursday, police arrested Ramon Goodwin, 24, of no fixed address, on charges of rape and sodomy.

-- Tom Jackman

Two Life Terms in Gang Slaying

The fourth man involved in a gang-related slaying of a man near a Reston park in 2001 was sentenced yesterday to two life terms in prison.

The badly beaten body of Fredy Reyes-Castillo, 22, was found near Brown's Chapel Park in June 2001. Police later determined that he had met four members of the Mara Salvatrucha street gang, or MS-13, and that they had beaten him with fists, sticks and bats.

Three men -- Melvin O. Lopez, Kenneth G. Penaranda Sanchez and Jorge A. Cedillos -- pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and received 30-year terms.

Investigators believed the group's leader was Brian O. Sanchez Maradiaga, now 27. Sanchez Maradiaga was extradited to Fairfax last year from a prison in Texas, where he was serving time for another slaying.