Officers quickly arrested a man accused of groping a stranger on a Blue Line train near the Wardlow Station Tuesday morning, according to the Long Beach Police Department.

Police got a call about a woman being groped in a train car around 9:20 a.m., Long Beach police spokesman Alvino Herrera said.

After officers talked to the victim, they quickly found a man matching the description of the suspected assailant, Herrera said.

They ended up arresting the man on suspicion of sexual battery, according to Herrera.

Police identified him as Darryl Jackson, a 29-year-old resident of Los Angeles.

He was booked into Long Beach jail and held in lieu of $20,000 bail, Herrera said.

Jeremiah Dobruck is executive editor of the Long Beach Post where he oversees all day-to-day newsroom operations. In his time working as a journalist in Long Beach, he’s won numerous awards for his investigative reporting and editing. Before coming to the Post in 2018, he wrote for publications including the Press-Telegram, Orange County Register and Los Angeles Times. Reach him at [email protected] or @jeremiahdobruck on Twitter.