<p>A Duluth man, known by authorities as the "pantyhose rapist," was found guilty Friday for sexually assaulting two women near the midtown Atlanta area, prosecutors said Friday.</p><p>Ali Reza Nejad, 33, was found guilty of rape, aggravated sodomy, two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and two counts of aggravated sexual battery, prosecutors said.</p><p>His sentencing will be held on Dec. 29 and prosecutors are seeking a sentence of two consecutive life sentences in prison.</p><p>The attacks happened on May 11, 2004 and on June 5, 2004. Prosecutors said Nejad took his victims to isolated industrial areas in the midtown Atlanta area and assaulted them at gunpoint.</p><p>Authorities called him the "pantyhose rapist" because he forced the women to put on pantyhose with a hole torn in them and he raped them through the hole in the pantyhose, said Erik Friedly, spokesman for District Attorney Paul Howard.</p><p>Nejad sought out prostitutes along Ponce de Leon Road in Atlanta, although one of the victims was not a prostitute, Friedly said.</p><p>Nejad also faces trial early next year for similar assaults on women in Fulton County. He also has been arrested for rape and armed robbery in Henry County, prosecutors said.</p>
