A former Williamsport Area School District bus driver was arrested Thursday afternoon on charges of allegedly having inappropriate contact with a female minor on his bus, according to Lycoming Regional police.

Ryan Joseph Haywood, 29, of 2500 Federal Ave., apartment 265, turned himself in to face two felony counts of unlawful contact with minor, a misdemeanor count of corrupting the morals of a minor and two counts of harassment.

The alleged incident on the bus occurred on the afternoon of Oct. 20 when Haywood grabbed the girl’s leg and squeezed it while the bus was stopped outside the Hepburn-Lycoming Primary School at 355 Route 973 in Hepburn Township as Haywood waited for additional students to board, police said in an affidavit.

Police said he was actually an employee not of the school district but of the bus company that transports students. Soon after the investigation got underway, Haywood was terminated from the position, police said Thursday.

After being touched, the juvenile student turned and told Haywood that she was “feeling uncomfortable,” which prompted the bus driver to “blow her a kiss,” according to Detective Jordan Mahosky, the investigator who filed the charges. It is also alleged that he made inappropriate comments to the girl on the bus, the detective said.

It was also learned that at some point, while the girl was on the bus, Haywood grabbed “what he thought was the minors phone and added his personal Tik-Tok profile to hers as a follower,” Mahosky wrote in the court document. However, it tuned out the phone belonged not to the girl, but to one of her friends on the bus.

It is alleged that Haywood “corrupted the morals of a minor by sexually talking (to one online) and touching (another),” Mohosky said in a criminal complaint.

Believing he was texting the victim, but in fact it was another minor, Haywood sent the girl inappropriate remarks and “a large heart emoji,” the detective alleged.

Following his arraignment before District Judge William Solomon, Haywood was released on $50,000 bail.