Fairfax County police have charged a Centreville man with grand larceny and forgery. He is Joshua Aaron Seraydarian of 12644 Heron Ridge Drive, between Route 29 and the Fairfax County Parkway.
Pfc. William Fisher, of the Fair Oaks District Police Station, detailed the case against him in a July 26 affidavit to search Seraydarian's townhouse for possible evidence. He wrote that, on July 25, a woman contacted him to report that her 2006, red Honda moped had been stolen.
THE WOMAN is a GMU student and, when she moved home to California for the summer, she left her moped in the garage of Seraydarian's home, where she lived during the school year. She'd left it in the care and custody of a girlfriend who lived there during school, too.
The officer wrote that the friend last saw the Moped in that garage, on or about June 1. Since then, she made several attempts to contact Seraydarian, from whom she and the GMU student rented their rooms.
Finally, wrote Fisher, "After several phone calls and a message from [the friend] stating she would call the police, Seraydarian called [the friend]. [He] told her the moped had been stolen, on or about July 6, when he had left the garage door open in order for [the friend] to retrieve the moped."
However, Fisher stated that police investigation later led to the discovery of an alleged bill of sale showing the moped sold by a John D. Evans to a Brad Gilmore. Wrote Fisher: "Gilmore paid $620 for the moped, which had the same VIN [vehicle-identification number] as shown on the GMU student's registration and title for the stolen moped."
Police also learned that Evans used to rent a room in Seraydarian's townhouse, and Seraydarian still receives mail for him there. According to Fisher, investigation also revealed that Seraydarian may possibly have used a laptop computer to place an Internet ad for the moped's sale.
In requesting a warrant to search Seraydarian's home, Fisher wrote that he hoped to find a hard copy of the bill of sale, along with electronic evidence on Seraydarian's laptop computer "that will aid in the recovery of the stolen moped."
Police executed the warrant July 26 at 10:19 p.m. and seized a bill of sale, laptop computer, BlackBerry cell phone, three pipes and eight pieces of mail with the last name of Evans.
The next day, July 27, police arrested Seraydarian and charged him with one count each of grand larceny and forgery. He was released from jail, the same day, on $2,000 bond and has an Oct. 3 court date.