Author: rideshare safety
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Man Who Posed as Uber Driver to Kidnap and Rape Women Sentenced to 41 Years in Prison
A 28-year-old man from Cleveland, Chistian Burks, was sentenced to 41 years in prison after posing as an Uber driver to kidnap and then rape multiple women. As Cleveland.com previously reported, Burks would pose as an Uber driver in order to abduct women standing outside of busy restaurants in the city’s Warehouse District. Burks was…
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Woman tells of attempted kidnapping by Uber driver in Paris
The family of the 24-year-old say she escaped by jumping from the moving car. A woman from France is speaking about the moment when her sister-in-law had realized she was being kidnapped by an Uber driver that she ordered in a suburb of Paris. Nina Scaly had made a social media post that when viral…
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Uber driver has been charged with sexually assaulting passenger as well as raping 2 other woman
In San Diego, on October 6, a woman known as “Jane Doe” had called Uber for a ride. She needed to go from Alpine to meet a friend in El Cajon and then back to Alpine. However when she got inside of the car, she had no idea she would be getting inside the car…
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Man from Springfield found guilty of rape after pretending to be an Uber driver pretended to be an Uber driver found guilty of rape
Earlier this week, a man from Springfield, Illinois was found guilty of first-degree rape and sodomy. Back in the fall of 2018, 38-year-old Tyson Fairley was arrested and charged with the 2 counts after he pretended to be an Uber driver and sexually assaulted women he picked up from Downtown Springfield who were intoxicated. The…
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Rideshare Rape Case Sent to the Lee County Grand Jury by Judge
A rideshare driver from Opelika was in court on Wednesday for a probable cause hearing after he picked up 2 female passengers in downtown Auburn and was accused of sexually assaulting them. Theodore Leroy Halls, 46 was involved in the felony rape case that is headed to a Lee County Grand Jury in order for…
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Man from Rhode Island charged after admitting to sexually assaulting 2 teenage girls after posing as an Uber driver
A man from Woonsocket admitted while in federal court that he had coerced and sexually assauletd 2 teenage girls while also filming them years ago. Francis Scott, 41, while in the U.S. District Court pleaded guilty to 2 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, and 1 count of possessing child pornography after sexually assaulting 2…
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Rideshare Driver is Accused of Sexually Assaulting a Passenger While Driving Her To Work
A man who was driving for a rideshare service was arrested and charged with a sexual assault after an incident on June 11th, according to an affidavit from the Travis County Sheriff’s Office. According to the affidavit, it accuses Ololade Shoetan, 41, of sexually assaulting a woman that he had picked up while working for…