Salon owner charged with sexually assaulting employee

A 33-year-old Silver Spring salon owner has been charged with sexually assaulting a female employee after work.

On the evening of May 6, police said, Adane Ali, owner of the Addis Hair Salon, at 11429 Grandview Ave., locked the doors and turned the lights off, took the 23-year-old woman’s cell phone and said he wanted to talk, according to Montgomery County police. When the victim refused, the suspect pushed her onto a couch where he physically and sexually assaulted her, police said. The suspect then drove the woman home, police said.

Ali was being held Friday on $250,000 bond.

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