NAPLES, Fla. — Naples Police arrested a man who groped and harassed a juvenile girl on August 18 at a public bus stop.

According to the Naples Police Department, the girl had just left school and was about to catch the bus, like she does every day.

The victim told police she noticed the man identified as 22-year-old Kevin Castro-Salinas before he harassed her. He kept walking back and forth at the bus stop lifting up his shirt.

While waiting for the bus Castro-Salinas tried to lean on the victim and kiss her at the Collier Area Transit (CAT) bus stop located at 1600 Fleischmann Boulevard along Goodlette Frank Road. The victim tried to avoid him but he kept forcing himself on her, eventually causing her to fall on the sidewalk. When he tried to help her up, she yelled at him not to touch her and stood with other girls until the bus arrived.

“If there are people around, get loud,” Project Hope CEO Eileen Wesley said. “You could be a fully trained MMA boxer and somebody attacks you and your response to trauma is to freeze.”

But this victim fought through that natural response and drew attention to her attacker.

“Yell, fire! When people yell ‘help’ everybody has that bystander effect like ‘Oh somebody’s gonna go help them.’ But if you yell something big, that might affect somebody else,” she said.

When the bus arrived, Castro-Salinas followed the victim onto the bus and grabbed her buttocks. She yelled ‘Stop,” and made sure to sit far away from him at the back of the bus.

“She did the right thing on the bus and sitting away from him,” Wesley said. “I’m not sure if she told the bus driver but that could have been helpful.”

Castro-Salinas sat in the front and continued to watch her throughout the bus ride. When the victim stood up to get off at her stop, he looked at her and also stood up. When he got off the bus the victim sat back down and let the doors close on him and this horrible situation. She continued to ride the bus to the Collier County Government Center.

The victim told Naples Police she did not know Castro-Salinas or recognize him from her school or neighborhood. She refused emergency medical treatment for the injuries suffered from her fall on the sidewalk.

Police began investigating video captured on the CAT bus. Castro-Salinas was identified as the man who committed the crime and police arrested him at his Naples Manor home on Wednesday.

Castro-Salinas was arrested in 2021 when the former student snuck into Lely High School and wandered around campus.

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This time around, Castro-Salinas faces molestation and battery charges.

If you can identify the man, please contact the NPD Criminal Investigations Division at (239) 213-4822.