A Bowling Green man who reportedly contacted two women for sex work weeks apart is accused of sexually assaulting and robbing them.

A grand jury will hear the case against Jermaris Whiteside, 34, who was arrested Jan. 2 by the Bowling Green Police Department on two counts of kidnapping, two counts of first-degree robbery, two counts of first-degree sodomy and a count of first-degree rape.

Warren District Court Judge John Brown bound the case over to a grand jury on Wednesday following a preliminary hearing.

Detective Ryan Dillon of the Bowling Green Police Department testified that city police had been contacted by a woman who reported a sexual assault occurred on Dec. 13 and identified Whiteside as the suspect.

The detective said the woman was an escort who had been contacted by Whiteside for her services and that she agreed to pick him up on Patrick Way.

“Soon after (Whiteside) got into her vehicle, she said he produced some pepper spray as well as a handgun and told her as long as she cooperated, she would be okay,” Dillon said.

The woman said they drove to a secluded area and that Whiteside sexually assaulted her in the backseat of the vehicle, and that they later traveled to a convenience store where Whiteside used the woman’s debit card to buy some merchandise, Dillon said.

City police received another report of a sexual assault on Jan. 1 from a woman who claimed that Whiteside reached out to her on a text app for sex work and that she traveled from Elizabethtown to meet him at a location on Scottsville Road.

Dillon said that the woman reported picking up Whiteside there, and that he was wearing a pair of white gloves and a facial covering at the time.

Whiteside is then alleged to have produced a handgun and had her drive to a park and coerced her into performing a sex act.

The woman reported that Whiteside then went through her purse and took $3,000, Dillon said.

Dillon said the woman had one of the white gloves in her car, and city police found a second white glove in Whiteside’s vehicle after he was stopped Jan. 2 and placed under arrest.

Whiteside agreed to be interviewed by police after being stopped.

“He confirmed he did meet both of these individuals for sexual contact, but he does not understand why they would say he sexually assaulted and robbed them,” Dillon said.

The detective said police had not recovered a firearm during the investigation and that no money exchanged hands between Whiteside and the two women and that the woman connected to the December incident went to a Nashville hospital where she was evaluated for signs of sexual assault.

Whiteside remains in Warren County Regional Jail, where $10,000 cash bonds have been set in each of the two criminal cases.