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SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — A man wielding a machete chased and assaulted three women in Cottonwood Heights after they denied his sexual advances on Sunday, according to Cottonwood Heights Police.

Elias Samuel Webber, 35, was arrested in Salt Lake County on three counts of aggravated assault (third-degree felony), three counts of forcible sexual abuse (second-degree felony), two counts of threat of violence (class-B misdemeanor), among other charges.

On Oct. 5, police responded to an assault in the area of 1700 East 7200 South in Cottonwood Heights. The caller reported that Webber was drunk and had assaulted her and her friends, chasing them with a knife in his hand.

An officer arrived on scen

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