SAN JOSE — Police have announced the arrest of a Campbell man in connection with a pair of sexual assaults that occurred on the Los Gatos Creek Trail in San Jose earlier this week.

Police began investigating after a woman reported being attacked around 8:50 a.m. Wednesday morning while walking on the trail near Leigh Avenue, according to a San Jose Police Department news release issued Thursday.

The woman told investigators that a man ambushed her and threw her to the ground, then sexually assaulted her, police said. She fought back and broke away from the man, and called for help.

Responding police officers did not immediately find the assailant, and the Police Department later put out a surveillance video image that did not clearly show the man’s face but did record his physical build and his clothing.

While they were investigating the attack, police said a second woman contacted authorities to report being attacked in a similar fashion by a similarly described man, “around the same time” as the other assault.

Sexual assault detectives later identified the suspect as Pablo Chan, a 21-year-old Campbell resident. On Thursday around 4:20 p.m., police said officers with the department’s MERGE Unit — San Jose’s equivalent of a SWAT team — found Chan in a parking lot near Leigh Avenue and De Rose Way.

Chan was booked into the Elmwood men’s jail in Milpitas on suspicion of felony aggravated kidnapping, sexual assault, and for two misdemeanor warrants, according to police and jail records. He is currently being held without bail and is tentatively scheduled to be arraigned early next week.

Anyone with information about Chan or the attacks can contact Detective Ashley Travaglione at 408-277-4102 or by email at 4741@sanjoseca.gov. Tips can also be left with Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers at 408-947-7867 or siliconvalleycrimestoppers.org.