A masturbating man twice interrupted in Halifax last week has turned himself in, Halifax Regional Police said Monday afternoon.

The man was first spotted in the corridor between the World Trade and Convention Centre and Scotia Square on Nov. 27 just after 2 p.m.

Someone saw him masturbating and called the police. He fled.

At 4 p.m., another complaint came into police that a man — police think it's the same person — was committing the same indecent act on the third floor of Park Lane Mall on Spring Garden Road.

The man fled again before police could catch him.

Halifax Regional Police said a 20-year-old Upper Sackville man turned himself in to police headquarters at about 3 p.m. on Monday. He was arrested and released.

He faces two counts of committing an indecent act and has been ordered to appear in court at a later date.