A British Columbia man is facing several charges almost 30 years after four females were violently sexually assaulted in southwestern Ontario, police say.

The Ontario Provincial Police say through advanced DNA technology, they were able to identify a 52-year-old man — who was in his 20s at the time of the incidents — as the suspect in the sexual assaults.

Police said the sexual assaults occurred in Lambton County, Kent County and Sarnia over a five-month span in 1997, and involved three underage girls — around the ages of 15 and 16 — and one woman.

The first incident occurred on March 26, 1997, when a teenage girl was abducted in Sarnia, Ont. She was taken by a man driving a dark blue vehicle and sexually assaulted in Sombra Township in Lambton County, police said.

A second inciden

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