‘It gives me the creeps:’ Gwinnett man arrested for second time in months after groping women

A Gwinnett County man is in jail for the second time since July for allegedly groping women after telling them that spiders were on them.

Miles Couch, 29, appeared before a judge Thursday morning but remains in jail without bond facing multiple counts of sexual battery and elder abuse.

“It gives me the creeps just thinking about it again,” said one 76-year-old victim who asked not to be identified.

She says she was inside the Goodwill store on Pleasant Hill Road in August when Couch used the same trick he’s accused of using before groping all of his alleged victims.

“He said, ‘It looks like it’s a spider and it’s on your bottom,’” she said. “He said, ‘Here, let me get it.’ He reached and just was bold enough and he just touched me.”

She says there was no spider on her at all. It’s the same trick police say Couch used every time before he rubbed or squeezed women’s backsides and then ran off.

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The anonymous victim says she worried about what else Couch was capable of.

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