Vancouver police have arrested the man believed to have groped four women over three days near the city’s downtown core.
Images of the suspect were procured through days of canvassing the impacted neighbourhoods and speaking with apartment building concierges, and released Tuesday by police. In a Wednesday update, police said the 25-year-old suspect had been taken into custody from a residence in East Vancouver.
All four alleged sexual assaults occurred after dark around BC Place and the Rogers Arena on April 27 and April 29. Each victim was between 25 and 40 years old and out for a walk when they were groped, police added.
The first woman said she was walking near Pender and Abbott streets around 9 a.m. on April 27, when someone approached her from behind and touched her. Within 15 minutes, another woman who was walking near Georgia and Beatty streets told police the same thing had happened to her.
“Two days later, on April 29, a woman was standing near Georgia and Beatty Street when she was groped by a stranger around 9:15 p.m.,” reads the police news release.
“A fourth victim was then sexually assaulted near Georgia and Hamilton Street around 11:15 p.m.”
Anyone with information on the alleged assaults is asked to contact Vancouver police at 604-717-0602.