Rape Suspect Accused in 3 More Cases : Crime: Thirteen new complaints are filed. Prosecutors say two of the victims were attacked at gunpoint in a Santa Ana mall parking lot.

A convicted rapist charged last week with attacking a Mission Viejo woman has been accused by prosecutors of sexually assaulting three other victims--two of them at gunpoint in a mall parking lot--during the last year.

Paul William Jensen was charged Wednesday with an additional 13 complaints of rape, assault, kidnaping and illegal possession of a firearm, bringing the total number of counts pending against him to 22.

Deputy Dist. Atty. Debora L. Lloyd said she filed the additional charges after the women identified Jensen as the man who sexually assaulted them.

Two of the rapes occurred in June and October last year in the parking lot of MainPlace mall in Santa Ana, Lloyd said. The third victim was “someone Jensen had dated,” the prosecutor added.

Sheriff’s investigators arrested Jensen last week after a 35-year-old Mission Viejo woman identified him as the man who raped her at gunpoint in the parking lot of the Laguna Hills Mall on March 5.

Lloyd and Santa Ana police said the two assaults at the Santa Ana mall mirrored the Laguna Hills attack.

Both women were entering their cars before they were assaulted at gunpoint, said Santa Ana Police Department spokeswoman Maureen Haacker.

“The suspect used the same method of operation in all of the assaults, and all of the victims gave the same description of the suspect in both Santa Ana cases and the sheriff’s (Laguna Hills) case,” Haacker said.

Jensen’s attorney, Allan Stokke, was not available for comment.

In 1985, Jensen was convicted of sexually assaulting four Newport Beach women whom he had dated. Those convictions were later overturned by an appellate court, but Jensen received a six-year sentence after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a single victim. He served 2 1/2 years in state prison and got six months off for good behavior and three years’ parole.

Jensen has not yet been arraigned in the Laguna Hills Mall case, but he said in a jailhouse interview last week that he did not commit the rape.

Municipal Judge Pamela L. Iles refused to grant bail at a hearing last week, saying that Jensen may pose a risk to the victim, who told police her attacker threatened to kill her and her children if she reported the crime to police.

Jensen’s arraignment hearing was postponed to July 10.

Times staff writer Lily Dizon contributed to this report.