SAN JOSE — A parolee was arrested early Wednesday in the middle of a horrific attack where police allege he intruded into a West San Jose apartment and raped two women, police said.

Kenneth Duane Bridges, 26, of Morgan Hill, is in the Santa Clara County main jail where he is being held without bail on suspicion of more than a dozen counts, including offenses such as rape, sexual assault, assault with a deadly weapon, criminal threats and false imprisonment. Bridges was on parole for a robbery conviction when he was arrested.

San Jose police were called about 6 a.m. Wednesday by a resident of an apartment in the 1600 block of Stokes Street to report that she and another woman had been sexually assaulted by a man who somehow got into their home in the middle of the night.

“This was a very traumatic experience for these two victims,” police spokeswoman Heather Randol said. “A pretty brazen crime.”

Officers arrived while the suspect, since identified as Bridges, was still on the premises, and arrested him.

The victims, women ages 63 and 54, were taken to the hospital for undisclosed injuries, Randol said.

It was not immediately clear how the man entered the apartment. Randol said Bridges was not known by the victims.