Police in Sandy, Utah, have charged a Lyft driver who is in the country illegally with the brutal rape of a female passenger.
Police arrested Alejandro Rendon Segovia, 26, on September 17 and accused him of the August 30 attack. He was charged with aggravated kidnapping and object rape, first-degree felonies, and obstruction of justice, a second-degree felony, according to KSTU-TV.
Migrants committing crimes while driving for Lyft or Uber seems to be a rising issue among the rideshare companies. Just for two examples, in August, a tech company CEO was physically assaulted by an Uber driver in Charleston. Another was charged with aggravated kidnapping for attempting to rape a female passenger in Texas.
The incident in Utah began when a 19-year-old woman
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