From TIME A driver for ride-sharing app Uber was arrested Monday night for allegedly masturbating while ferrying a 25-year-old woman through the eastern Indian city of Kolkata earlier this month. News of the incident comes weeks after a female passenger in the Indian capital New Delhi made a similar allegationagainst a driver working for TaxiForSure, [...]
From the Chicago Tribune An Uber driver from Glen Ellyn was ordered detained Monday on federal charges stemming from a series of Facebook rants allegedly threatening to shoot Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and others who had angered him. Mohammad Waqas Khan, 29, was arrested May 14 after law enforcement officials had tailed him all night [...]
From the Miami Herald Miguel Morán Díaz, a Cuban migrant arrested in Miami after expressing sympathies for the terror group ISIS, will be sentenced July 27 in federal court. The sentencing hearing before U.S. District Judge Joan Lenard will close a chapter in a case that drew international media attention after the one-time Uber driver [...]
From the Boston Globe In a dramatic break in a series of unsolved attacks, a former Uber driver accused of raping a passenger in December has been linked by DNA evidence and witness accounts to five other sexual assaults on the Charles River Esplanade and in South Boston between 2006 and 2010, authorities said Tuesday. [...]
From Buzzfeed News This voicemail was passed on to BuzzFeed News by Anna Kealey, a 28-year-old university lecturer based in Hackney. On the recording, a man’s voice repeatedly says, “Hello, please don’t do that again.” He calls Kealey an “idiot”, saying “you bring me here and you cancel”, before adding “Do that again and I’ll [...]
From ABC 7 Eyewitness News CHICAGO (WLS) -- The ABC7 I-Team is reporting exclusively on an Uber driver who was removed from the platform after his criminal record was exposed. Uber's background checks failed to catch past crimes and traffic violations. Uber says it approves 10,000 drivers a year, and hundreds of them get rejected [...]
From FOX 2 Now St. Louis KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Kansas City police are investigating a couple’s complaint that a man claiming to be an Uber driver picked them up and then took off with the woman in the car. The couple says they were trying to get a taxi early Saturday in the Westport [...]
From the Courthouse News Service (CN) - A Virginia mother claims in a lawsuit that her 13-year-old daughter was sexually assaulted by an Uber driver whom she'd previously complained about due to his inappropriate behavior. In a complaint filed in Virginia Beach, Va., the unidentified mother says her daughter downloaded the Uber app to her [...]
From the Naples Herald Alvaro Gutierrez, 41, was arrested Thursday evening for what could be his fourth DUI offense at the Ridge Port Plaza, according to an arrest report. Officers responded to calls about a possible impaired driver, the report said. The suspect vehicle was reported to be aggressively driving, and tried to “ram” someone’s vehicle. [...]
From GeekWire Lyft deactivated a driver in Seattle after police say he demanded sex from a rider before dragging her beside his car as she tried to retrieve her lost phone. The Seattle Police Departmentdescribed the incident here, which happened early Saturday morning around 1:30 a.m. in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. After being dropped off [...]