Police have arrested a man accused of sexually assaulting two women as they left Chelsea nightclubs in the latest of a series of assaults in which attackers have posed as cab drivers.

The man, identified by police as Torkieh Sadagheh, 28, allegedly lured two young women into his black Lincoln Town Car early Sunday morning outside nightclubs near West 28th Street and Tenth Avenue.

Using a license plate number taken down by the two women, police found and arrested Mr. Sadagheh yesterday at his residence in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn.

Last fall, a man using the same tactic abducted two women as they were leaving the Box, a nightclub on Chrystie Street in the Lower East Side, but police said the victims in those incidents did not identify Mr. Sadagheh in a lineup yesterday. In those attacks, a man posing as a cab driver drove the women to Brooklyn, where he raped them in the back of his car. In the first incident Sunday, Mr. Sadagheh allegedly picked up a 23-year-old dancer at Scores West at 4:20 a.m., as she was leaving the nightclub.

The woman, Monica Maneiro, said she climbed into the car without checking whether it was registered with the Taxi and Limousine Commission.

After a few blocks, Ms. Maneiro said the driver stopped, climbed into the backseat, and began strangling her. He put his hand over her face, but she tried to calm down and not fight back, she said.

“I was scared,” she said at a press conference inside Scores yesterday evening. But she said she was able to reach back and open the door of the car, sending her and the driver tumbling into the street.

She then called 911 and reported the incident along with the car’s license plate number “so it wouldn’t happen to anybody else,” she said.

“I didn’t want him to go unpunished,” she said.

But after he drove away, Mr. Sadagheh allegedly returned to same corner at West 28th Street and Tenth Avenue. There, another young woman got into his car, believing it was a livery cab.

The woman, also 23, had been with a group of friends but left them when they decided to go to a restaurant for a late meal, police said.

As the car neared the woman’s home, Mr. Sadagheh allegedly climbed into the backseat and raped her. Afterward, he let her go and drove away, police said.

The woman also wrote down his license plate number, police said. Mr. Sadagheh has been charged with first-degree rape and attempted rape.