A ride-share driver is accused of sexually touching a 20-year-old woman he picked up from St. Paul for a ride, according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday.

The Ramsey County attorney’s office has charged Adamu Tesgera Fida of Minneapolis with fifth-degree criminal sexual conduct — non-consensual sexual contact. The charge is a gross misdemeanor.

According to the criminal complaint, the woman told police she ordered a ride from Lyft on June 10 and asked to be dropped off in Minneapolis.

The app showed “Adamu” would be picking her up and police later identified him as Fida, 38.

When the vehicle arrived, she started toward the backseat, but Fida asked her to sit up front. He told the young woman “he was infatuated with her … what a ‘beautiful girl’ she was” and that it was “love at first sight,” according to the complaint.

The woman reported that he reached over and, over her clothing, rubbed his hand across her chest and “grabbed” her breast, the complaint said. He also rubbed his hand on her inner thigh over her clothes.

“He asked if he could pull off the road, indicating he wanted to continue his sexual touching of her,” the complaint said. The woman told him to take her to her destination, but once there, he kissed her on the lips.

She tried to step out of the car, though he grabbed her arm and she had to pull away hard.

The woman told police Fida “appeared very strong,” the complaint said. “She was intimidated by him and felt frozen.”

NO LONGER A LYFT DRIVER

The next day, when the woman went to work at Rosedale Center, she saw Fida in her section of the store. He was watching and following her, according to the complaint. She was shocked and didn’t know how he found out where she worked.

When police talked to Fida on June 13 and showed him a photograph of the woman, he said he recognized her and she sat in the backseat during the ride. He said he had not touched or kissed the woman.

Police asked Fida if he went to the mall, looking for the woman, but he said he was there to shop for an item for his wife.

Police also asked Fida if he touched the woman’s clothing and he said he did not. “Told about DNA, he put his head in his hands and sighed,” the complaint said. “Asked what happened in the car, Fida said, ‘Only this one time.'” He said he had touched her hair and hand.

A Lyft spokesman said in a statement, “Safety is fundamental to Lyft. The behavior described is frightening, and the driver’s access to Lyft has been permanently removed. We stand ready to assist law enforcement in every way we can.”