Reported assault on Jefferson Park Avenue
Charlottesville police are investigating a report that a woman was assaulted in her apartment Sunday night. The apartment is on the 1800 block of Jefferson Park Avenue.
The woman told police that the masked assailant was in her apartment when she entered. The report said the woman struggled with the intruder before hitting him stomach and running to a neighbor's apartment, where she called the police.
According to Charlottesville Det. Paul Davis, the suspect is around 5-foot-10 and weighs about 160 pounds.
Davis added that the intruder could have entered through an unlocked door.
He said that many people, particularly University students, leave their windows open or put fans in them during the summer, which increases the risk of an unwanted person entering the house.
Davis said if anyone notices anyone suspicious in the 1800 block area of Jefferson Park Avenue, they should notify the police immediately.
Attempted robbery in parking garage
A University Health Systems employee reported to police that a man demanding money in the early morning hours of June 5 approached her in the Health Systems parking garage, asked for a cigarette and then attempted to rob her.
According to police reports, the man struck the woman, knocking her down and fled in an unknown direction. The woman was not seriously injured during the incident.
While police have not apprehended a suspect, an investigation is currently underway, University Police Sgt. Tom Durrer said.
Police are still looking for the suspect, described as a black male wearing jeans, a dark T-shirt, glasses and boots.
Guilty plea on sexual assaults
Shannon Leo Malnowski, 28, of Albemarle County pled guilty on Tuesday to two counts of sexual assault and abduction for attacks occurring near the University.
Thomas James, Malnowski's Charlottesville attorney, declined to comment on the case, which will move to the sentencing phase, scheduled for Nov. 9. Malnowski faces several lifetime prison sentences.
Crucial DNA evidence found on a T-shirt after an indecent exposure incident outside Ruffner Hall last summer linked Malnowski to the earlier attacks which lacked a suspect.
Police initially charged Malnowski when apprehended last August with two counts of rape and forcible sodomy. The charges were based on a rape that occurred last July at a local high school track, a July 1997 rape on Culbreth Road, and November 1996 attack on Cemetery Drive.
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