The District provides plenty of its own reasons why single women walk around on city streets with their guards up, but two different stories from Northern Virginia right now are making Arlington and Fairfax Counties sound at least as unsettling.

First, the serial sexual assaults centered around Falls Church appear to be continuing. WTOP says that the latest incident involved a Falls Church woman who was assaulted near Lee Highway and George Mason Road Tuesday night. Fairfax County Police said the same suspect could be responsible for six other attacks in Fairfax County and four attacks in Alexandria since August of last year.

Then an apparently unrelated sexual assault and abduction happened in Arlington early this morning. A man broke into a woman’s home on the 1000 block of North Utah Street between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m., sexually assaulted her, and then forced her into her car and made her drive to two ATMs to withdraw money. The story sounds eerily like one that occurred in Northeast D.C. in August.

Police are asking women in Northern Virginia to be extremely cautious right now.