Photo courtesy of Hoover Police Department
Rashad Almuradi
Rashad Almuradi
A clerk at a Hoover vape shop has been charged with sexual abuse after a female customer claimed he groped her in a sexual manner last week.
A 25-year-old woman reported she was shopping at the Pharaoh Vape & Phone Repair shop at 1633 Montgomery Highway on Tuesday when a clerk began making unwanted sexual advances toward her, Hoover police said today.
The woman reported the clerk grabbed and groped her in a sexual manner until another customer entered the store. The woman said she immediately drove to another location and called police.
Officers went to the store at 12:17 p.m. Tuesday and arrested the clerk, identified as 35-year-old Rashad Almuradi. Almuradi was charged with first-degree sexual abuse and released from the Jefferson County Jail Thursday morning on an $11,000 bond.
Someone who answered the phone at Pharaoh Vape & Phone Repair this morning said the accusation against Almuradi was not true.
