Mary Stachyra Lopez is a staff reporter covering business, public safety, education, and other community issues. She covered Northern Virginia news for years at several media outlets, and spent half a decade as an editor on The Atlantic's audience team before joining Local News Now.
A man accused of attempting to rape a woman at a Groveton hotel last year is facing a new charge of attempting to bribe a witness, according to Fairfax County Circuit Court records.
A grand jury indicted Oscar Junior Barrios of Alexandria on the bribery charge on July 20, adding it to a list of felony charges that already included abduction with intent to defile, attempted rape, grand larceny of a person, and misdemeanor simple assault.