INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Fishers police on Wednesday told News 8 no criminal charges were filed after a woman accused an Indianapolis City-County councilor of groping her during a date.

The 18-year-old woman told News 8’s newsgathering partner, Mirror Indy, she met Nick Roberts, 24, through the dating app Hinge and went on two dates with him. During the second date, on the evening of July 12, the woman said she and Roberts went for a walk along the Nickel Plate Trail in Fishers when he led her onto a side trail, kissed her and groped her. She said she tried to push him away but he did not let go until someone walked by on the main trail. The woman told Mirror Indy she ended the date afterward.

Her stepmother said she then posted a warning about Roberts in a private Facebook group.

Roberts said he and the woman kissed during that second date but he did not grope her.

The Democrat councilor turned down News 8’s request for an interview but posted lengthy video and written statements on his Facebook page. He denied having any unwanted physical contact with the woman.

“During the kiss, she did not push me away or ask me to stop. If she had done either, I would have stopped immediately,” he said in the video.

News 8 obtained the incident report from Fishers police on Wednesday afternoon. According to detectives, the woman said she asked Roberts multiple times to stop, to which she claimed he replied she was shy and just needed to open up. Detectives wrote that there was some surveillance footage of Roberts and the woman on the trail for much of the period during which both Roberts and the woman said they were on the trail. They said the footage never showed any visible signs of distress, such as disheveled clothing. There also was no reference to any unwanted touching in any text messages between the two.

“Although it is difficult to ascertain what may have happened off camera view, what is captured on camera view shows two individuals walking together in normal walking behavior,” detectives wrote. “There was no video of them kissing and there is no video or witnesses to the alleged incident.”

Detectives said the woman later told them exactly where the alleged incident happened. They wrote it was in an area with no surveillance footage. Detectives said they reviewed the case with prosecutors and concluded there was not enough evidence for probable cause that a crime happened.

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