A 35-year-old man with a high-profile federal job is being held in a Virginia jail on multiple felony charges for allegedly attempting to abduct two women and sexually assaulting them on Friday night.

Alexandria police said video shows the suspect, Jeff Gary, approaching a woman outside the Braddock Road Metro station.

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The woman told police Gary restrained and assaulted her. She called police and detectives immediately went to work to identify the suspect.

Then a call came in about a separate attack with an eerily similar description. Police said this attack happened one hour earlier and one Metro stop north, at Potomac Yard.

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