Category: passengers attacked
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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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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 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…
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Uber driver arrested for alleged sexual assault in Wake County, sheriff says
An Uber driver is in the Wake County jail, accused of sexually assaulting a woman during a ride on May 9. Muhammad Arslan Afzal, of Clayton, is being held on a $250,000 bond, according to the Wake County Sheriff’s Office. The woman got into the front of the vehicle to help Afzal with the GPS…