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A U.S. Forces Korea soldier was recently arrested on charges of raping two women and the attempted rape of a third, numerous South Korean media reported Tuesday.

Spokespeople from USFK and the Seoul prosecutor’s office could not be reached late Tuesday to confirm the stories.

The soldier was identified in the reports as a 23-year-old but was not identified by name. Some reports said he was Korean-American.

According to the reports, the soldier allegedly raped a 21-year-old South Korean woman at 4 a.m. on June 14 in Dongducheon, then beat her and took her cell phone so she could not call police.

Police collected DNA from the attacker’s semen, but the woman said she didn’t clearly remember what he looked like because it was dark and she was traumatized from the attack.

Sometime after that incident, a U.S. soldier allegedly took a woman he met at a club in Seoul’s popular Hongdae district to a dark, deserted spot and raped her. In another incident, a U.S. soldier was detained and questioned by USFK police after he allegedly tried to rape a woman he met at a Hongdae club, the South Korean media reported.

Hongdae has been off-limits for U.S. troops from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. since last year, when a U.S. soldier raped a 67-year-old woman there.

South Korean police suspected the same man might be involved in all three cases and asked USFK for help, the reports said. A DNA sample of the man’s saliva reportedly matched DNA from semen samples taken after the Dongducheon attack.

The man will be turned over to South Korean law enforcement on Oct. 30, the reports said.

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