A Manassas man faces felony theft charges after allegedly taking his then-girlfriend’s rental car from a hotel in Alexandria more than six years ago.
The victim is a Canadian citizen and reported the incident to the Alexandria Police Department on July 7, 2020. The victim told police that she flew in the day before from Canada to see her boyfriend, who she’d met in January, according to a recently unsealed search warrant affidavit.
The victim told police that her plane landed at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport at around 4 p.m. on July 6, 2020, and that she rented a red 2020 Toyota Corolla with Michigan plates. She said her boyfriend drove the car to his mother’s house, then to a hotel in the 6200 block of Duke Street in Alexandria’s West End. After dinner, the couple went back to the hotel around 9 p.m. and went to sleep. She told police that she woke up at around 10:30 p.m. to find her boyfriend gone…