Police have arrested a 30-year-old suspect in two Southwest Philly gunpoint rapes

Police have arrested a 30-year-old Philadelphia man who they believe raped two women at gunpoint earlier this month in the city’s Kingsessing section, authorities said Sunday.

Michael Henry was charged with aggravated assault, rape, robbery, kidnapping, and related offenses in connection with one of the assaults, the District Attorney’s Office said. He’s being held on $2 million bail, according to Jane Roh, a spokesperson for District Attorney Larry Krasner.

Authorities said the Philadelphia Police Department’s Special Victims Unit is investigating Henry’s “suspected involvement” in other sexual assaults that they said fit a similar pattern.

Henry was identified as a suspect after police combed through surveillance footage and received several tips, according to Sgt. Eric Gripp, a police spokesperson. Authorities are awaiting results of DNA testing and might file additional charges, Gripp said.

The arrest came after police said last week they believed the same person committed both assaults.

The first attack occurred about 3 a.m. on Oct. 14 when a woman said she was in her car at the stoplight at 55th Street and Kingsessing Avenue. She told police that a man wearing a gray hoodie, sweatpants, and a blue surgical mask approached her car and pointed a handgun at her.

The man demanded money, and the woman gave him $20. He ordered her to unlock the doors, police said, then got inside her car and told her to drive to 49th and St. Bernard Streets, where he raped her. The man then drove the woman to an ATM and told her to withdraw money, then got out of the car and left, police said.

The charges filed this weekend by the D.A.’s Office are related to that alleged assault.

Police said the second assault occurred the next day at about 5 p.m. A woman told police she was walking near the 1100 block of South Paxon Street when a man wearing a red Phillies hat, blue hoodie, dark pants, and a blue surgical mask came up behind her, pointed a gun at her side, and demanded money, authorities said.

She gave him $25 and prescription medication, police said, and he forced her into an alleyway and raped her.

Court records show Henry has been arrested several times in the last five years in Philadelphia and Delaware County. He’s pleaded guilty to charges of simple assault and making terroristic threats. Earlier this year in Philadelphia he faced charges of drug possession with intent to deliver and conspiracy. That case is pending.