Suspect arrested in ‘violent’ sexual assaults: Peel police [Video]

Peel police say a man arrested in connection with a series of “violent sexual assaults” in Brampton and York Region posed as a rideshare driver and targeted women waiting at bus stops.

During a news conference at Peel Regional Police headquarters on Wednesday morning, Deputy Chief Nick Milinovich said two of the assaults took place on Nov. 8 and a third attack occurred on Nov. 16.

On the morning of Nov. 8, he said, a woman was waiting at a bus stop in the area of Countryside Drive and Bramalea in Brampton when she was approached by the driver of a black, four-door sedan. Investigators said the man claimed to be a rideshare driver and offered the woman a ride.

Police allege that he then took the woman to the area of Highway 27 and Nashville Road in Vaughan, where he sexually assaulted her.

Later that day, Milinovich said, the …