From LA Weekly If you were a drug dealer, having another job that pays you to drive around town would probably complement your endeavor. Yeah? Glendale police this week say 23-year-old Artak Avakian is an Uber driver who "used the position as a cover to sell drugs," according to a statement. Cops arrested Avakian at [...]
From ARLnow (Updated at 5:15 p.m.) Arlington County Police are looking for an Uber driver accused of sexually assaulting a female passenger. The incident happened early Sunday morning, on the 900 block of S. Randolph Street in the Alcova Heights neighborhood. It started with an Uber ride that left D.C. at some point between 2:45 [...]
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 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 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 the Quinnipiac Chronicle After a Quinnipiac female student entered what she trusted to be an Uber taxi last month in New Haven, two men attempted to sexually assault her, according to a crime report from the Hamden Police Department. The car picked her up near Yorkside Pizza next to Toad’s Place between 1-1:30 a.m [...]