From ABC 7 WJLA Washington, D.C. WASHINGTON (WJLA) — Prince William County police arrested an Uber driver Wednesday for allegedly groping a 24-year-old female passenger over her clothing. Mengistu Asfaw, 58, of Annandale, was charged with misdemeanor sexual battery. On July 12 at approximately 3:15 a.m., Asfaw picked up the victim and her acquaintance in [...]
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 Dallas Morning News Uber and the city of Dallas disagreed Saturday on whether a driver for the ride-sharing service who is accused of sexually assaulting a passenger in west Oak Cliff a week ago was allowed to drive for the company in Dallas. Meanwhile, court records show that the driver, 56-year-old Talal Ali [...]
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 [...]