Police said Monday that a Tennessee man sexually assaulted three young girls more than 100 times in Mercer County from 2009 to 2011.

Michael David Lewis, 40, of Nashville, faces 632 charges, including rape of a child and involuntary deviate sexual intercourse. The girls ranged in age from 9 to 14.

Lewis' attorney, Blair Hindman, said his client denies the charges. "I've spoken to his wife, and she expressed surprise," he said.

The girls told authorities that Lewis sometimes put pills in their drinks and gave them alcohol or marijuana, police said.

Pennsylvania State Trooper Troy Owen filed the 18-page criminal complaint on April 30. The FBI arrested Lewis, a former Mercer County resident, in Nashville on May 8. He is awaiting extradition to Pennsylvania.

Hindman said his client owns a country-store-type business in Tennessee, where he has lived for about four years.

According to the affidavit filed to support the charges, two of the girls are sisters and their mother called state police on April 2 to report that Lewis molested them.

All three girls were interviewed at the Child Advocacy Center in Youngstown, where they told similar stories of sexual assaults.

One girl said they were afraid to tell anyone because Lewis "said that if they ever told he would push them into the strip mine, and that he would kill them."

The girls said the incidents took place at a home in Jackson in Mercer County, in a camper in the woods, near a strip mine, in a tree house and in a shooting shanty.

The assaults took place when Lewis was living in Tennessee and visiting in Mercer County, according to the affidavit.

Police combed the camper for evidence and found what appeared to be semen. Police forwarded that to a crime lab for analysis, according to the affidavit.

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