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Vishnubhai Prahladbhai Patel

LEMOYNE - A store manager has been charged with allegedly grabbing and attempting to kiss a 17-year-old female employee, West Shore Regional Police said.

The girl told officers that Vishnubhai Prahladbhai Patel, 41, assaulted her as she left work on Wednesday from the store on Market Street, police said.

Patal, who lives along the 600 block of Yale Street in Swatara Township, Dauphin County, allegedly asked the girl to go into a back room of the business where he attempted to kiss her and grabbed her, police said.

Patel has been charged with one count of indecent assault and is being held in the Cumberland County Prison after being unable to post $50,000 bail.