Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) say a British Columbia man has been arrested and charged in connection with a series of violent sexual assaults in southwestern Ontario nearly three decades ago.

The arrest comes after a multi-jurisdictional investigation known as Project Aerial, which used advancements in DNA technology and investigative genetic genealogy to identify a suspect in four assaults that occurred between March and August 1997 in Lambton County, Kent County, and Sarnia, Ont.

On Oct. 26, with assistance from the RCMP and Vancouver Police, officers arrested Jason Timothy Davidson, 52, of Campbell River, B.C. He was transferred to Ontario the following day and remains in custody.

Davidson was scheduled to appear in court in Chatham, Ont., on Wednesday.

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