Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Year : 2, Issue: 13
CNN: An FBI special agent who was acquitted of attempted murder in a DC Metro shooting has been charged with raping and assaulting two women in Maryland, police said Monday.
Eduardo Valdivia, 40, has been suspended from the FBI pending a police investigation, a spokesperson for the bureau’s Washington field office told CNN.
Valdivia faces 10 felony and misdemeanor charges, including second-degree rape and second-degree assault, for acts which allegedly occurred in May and September of this year, court records show.
The Montgomery County Police Department confirmed Valdivia is in custody and is accused of sexually assaulting two women.
“Detectives from the Special Victims Investigations Division believe there may be additional victims,” police said in a statement, adding they would hold a news conference Tuesday to encourage more people to come forward.
The charges come almost two years after Valdivia was found not guilty of attempted murder and other related charges by a Maryland jury after he shot and wounded a passenger on a Washington, DC-area Metro train in December 2020.
In that incident, Valdivia was on his way to work when he allegedly got into a verbal exchange with a man while on a Red Line train and shot him. Robert Bonsib, Valdivia’s defense attorney, argued it was self-defense, and Valdivia was acquitted of all charges.
