RALEIGH, N.C. — An Uber driver has been charged with sexually assaulting a customer earlier this year, according to a North Carolina sheriffโs office.
A news release from the Wake County Sheriffโs Office says investigators have charged Muhammad Arslan Afzal with first-degree kidnapping, second-degree forcible sexual offense, indecent exposure and sexual battery.
According to investigators, the driver stopped his car on the shoulder of Interstate 540 near Knightdale early on May 9 and asked his passenger to move to the front seat to help him with his GPS.
The sheriffโs office says the driver assaulted the woman, then drove her to her destination before he fled the area. Warrants were secured on July 13 for Afzaiโs arrest, and with help from the Johnston County Sheriffโs Office, he was located and arrested.
Afzal is being jailed under a $250,000 secured bond. Itโs not known if he has an attorney.
In Columbia, South Carolina, a man is on trial for kidnapping and killing a University of South Carolina student who was out with friends when she disappeared. Police have said the student got into a car she thought was an Uber ride. But instead, it was driven by the man now charged with her murder.
