Authorities Seeking Tanning Salon Groper in South Forsyth

CUMMING, GA -- Law enforcement officials are looking for a man they say walked into a south Forsyth County tanning salon, then groped a female employee.

At about 5 p.m. on Monday, the suspect entered the salon and asked the woman at the front desk about purchasing a subscription to the salon for his wife, sheriff’s Dep. Epifanio Rodriguez said Thursday in an email.

As the employee was showing him around, the man then groped her while they were in one of the tanning rooms. When she began fighting back, he ran off, Rodriguez said, with the woman giving chase.

The suspect is described as a white male, somewhere between 25-30 years old with blonde or strawberry blonde hair and a small mustache. In a surveillance video provided by the sheriff’s office, he is wearing a dark-colored, hooded sweatshirt.

Rodriguez said authorities are seeking the public’s help in identifying the suspect, saying that such stranger-on-stranger crime is rare in Forsyth County. Anyone with information about the case is encouraged to call the sheriff’s office’s at (770) 781-3087.

(Photo from surveillance video courtesy Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office)