Police executing search warrant off Ravensworth Road

UPDATED July 13, 11 p.m.  A couple of blocks in a townhouse community on Ravensworth
Road, Annandale, have been blocked off with police tape since the early hours of July 13 as
Fairfax County Police are carrying out a search for an “explosive device,” according
to a police officer on the scene. The
occupants of two adjacent houses were evacuated.

The suspect, Marc Cassell, 36, was arrested by Fairfax County police and is awaiting extradition to Montgomery County, Md.

The investigation, which began at 2 a.m., is related to a
domestic dispute. A report by WTOP radio says the suspect had
used explosives to try to force his way into the home of his in-laws in the
11400 block of Marcliff Road in Bethesda, then fled to Fairfax County. Two
devices had been detonated, one outside the front door, and one by the garage,
causing significant damage.