From the Los Angeles Daily News LOS ANGELES — Uber is being sued by a passenger who alleges he was sexually assaulted by a male driver. Damian Becerra filed the lawsuit Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleging sexual assault and battery, false imprisonment, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligence. Becerra also is suing [...]
From the Florida Times Union Jacksonville A driver for an app-based transportation service has been charged after a woman said she was groped by the man following her Lyft ride. But Lyft officials say the driver who was arrested has had his ability to work for the company suspended immediately. Ismael Esa, 24, was charged [...]
From NDTV NOIDA: A woman journalist has accused an Uber cab driver of molesting her while she was on her way from Delhi to Noida on Wednesday night. The cab driver has been arrested. According to the complaint, the woman journalist suspected that the cab driver, Ravinder Singh, was taking a wrong route near Noida [...]
From News 4 JAX A Lyft passenger said her driver climbed into the back seat and assaulted her once she reached her house last month. The driver was charged, but the UNF student says that’s not enough and now she’s filing a lawsuit. Ismael Esa is facing misdemeanor battery charges after police said he groped [...]
From ABC 7 WXYZ Detroit EAST LANSING, Mich. (WXYZ) - East Lansing Police are warning Michigan State University students about ride sharing services, after two students were recently sexually assaulted near campus. The vital information was circulating on Friday night on the campus of Michigan State, a night students would be calling on ride sharing [...]
From the Palm Beach Post HENRY COUNTY, Ga. — A Henry County woman says an Uber driver attacked her. The woman, who asked not to be identified, filed a police report saying Jose Marrero Martinez picked her up from a restaurant and during the ride he tried to grope her. She said she pushed Martinez [...]
From PIX 11 News CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn – A Canarsie woman says she was sexually assaulted by an Uber driver after celebrating her 23rd birthday with friends Saturday night, according to police. The woman’s mother told PIX11 that her daughter went to Milk River, located at 960 Atlantic Avenue, to hang out with friends that evening. The [...]
From KOMO News SEATTLE -- A Seattle-area Lyft and Uber driver accused of trying to sexually assault a passenger has been charged with attempted rape. King County prosecutors say SeaTac resident Dereje Y. Kebede sexually assaulted the 22-year-old woman after picking her up in Seattle in March 2015. An arrest warrant is outstanding for Kebede, [...]
From the Daily News Journal MURFREESBORO — The Uber driver indicted in the rape of a client had a criminal history, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, but it’s not one that Uber would have known about. According to a spokesman for the rider program, Tennessee state law requires a search extending seven years into the [...]
From CBS News A Guelph Uber driver has been charged with sexual assault, police say. Officers began investigating sexual assault allegations on March 7 after the female victim came forward to police. Toronto Uber driver charged with sex assault of passenger Uber driver sought in 2nd Toronto sexual assault probe in two weeks The alleged assault occurred "on or [...]