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Washington -- Lori Meyer walked into her darkened McLean, Va., home one evening last month, her 8-month-old son, Samuel, in her arms, and found a strange man dashing down her stairs. As the intruder fled, Meyer ran outside, screaming, and flagged down a passing minivan.
Fairfax County, Va., police said Tuesday that the man that Meyer and the driver of the minivan cornered in a cul-de-sac that night, George C. Dalmas III, 44, works at the CIA. He's now been charged with 17 burglaries in the McLean area. And in a search of his Falls Church home, police said, they found a stunning trove of cash, jewelry, antiques, license plates -- and bags filled with more than 1,000 women's undergarments.
Dalmas was arrested Jan. 31, and at a hearing Friday, a Fairfax judge set bond for him at $50,000 on each count, for a total of $1.65 million. Dalmas was still being held Tuesday night.
His attorney, Michael Lindner, did not return a call seeking comment. A woman who answered the phone at Dalmas' home hung up promptly Tuesday.
Dalmas is a "midlevel administrative employee," a CIA spokesman said Tuesday, and he has been suspended without pay pending the outcome of the investigation. Some of the houses that were burglarized belonged to CIA employees, and Dalmas may have selected them because he knew they wouldn't be home, said Fairfax Officer Richard Henry.
By late December, police had linked seven burglaries to one person and appealed for the public's help. The burglaries were occurring mostly during working hours, Henry said, and employed the same break-in method. A search warrant affidavit filed by Fairfax Detective Wesley Kuemmel said the burglar normally targeted a ground-level window in the back of the home, used a lever or pry bar to break a window lock and then resecured the window when leaving to cover his tracks.
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