A former day laborer from Fairfax, Virginia pleaded guilty in court on Monday to approaching women at Fairfax County shopping malls, slashing their buttocks with a razor blade or box cutter and then disappearing.
The Washington Post reports that Johnny D. Guillen Pimentel had been suspected of slashing nine different women between February and June of 2011 at multiple locations in the area.
None of Pimentel's victims were seriously injured in any of the attacks; however, their randomness caused police to issue a task force in locating him.
Pimentel was arrested in January 2012 in Peru, where he is from, and pleaded guilty in Fairfax County Circuit court to two counts each of malicious wounding and unlawful wounding. Five of his charges were dropped as part of the plea deal. He faces up to seven years in prison.
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