Police in Lethbridge have arrested a 32-year-old man accused of attacking and sexually assaulting three women in less than three hours.

The man was captured by police early Saturday morning after one of his alleged victims spotted him downtown and told an officer.

Two days earlier, a woman was head-butted and punched in the face when she refused to have sex with a man around 8 p.m.

He had approached her while she was walking near London Road Park in central Lethbridge.

She managed to get away, but an hour later police say the man attacked again. This time, a woman got into his car and they drove out of the city.

It’s there he is accused of choking and punching the victim in the face before she was able to escape.

Less than two hours later he had returned to the city. He is accused of going after a 17-year-old girl waiting for a bus around 10:45 p.m.

After striking up a conversation, he dragged her across the street and pinned her against a wall after she refused to have sex. She escaped.

Lethbridge Staff Sgt. Bill Anderson said this kind of attack is not normal in the city of 89,000.

“The individual was very aggressive after trying to solicit sex,” he said. “He tried to use physical force to overcome the victim and perpetrate the sexual assault.”

Police have charged Nadir Louis Kumbobako with three counts of sexual assault, three counts of assault, two counts of unlawful confinement, choking to overcome resistance, and breach of a recognizance.

He is being held in custody, and is due in Lethbridge provincial court Monday.

rcuthbertson@calgaryherald.com