Left to right: Christopher Hayes, Jesse Alan Lawson (Oklahoma County Detention Center).
Two men flagged down a Lyft driver and offered to pay for a ride but instead held a gun to his head and ordered him to drive around before dawn on Sunday in Oklahoma before the assailants were dropped off and arrested nearby, authorities said.
Jesse Alan Lawson, 26, and Christopher Hayes, 27, face charges of kidnapping and robbery and weapons violations, online jail booking records show.
The incident happened on Sunday when police said the suspects flagged down the driver near a nightclub in Oklahoma City’s business district known as Bricktown, according to a police report obtained by Law&Crime.
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When the suspects asked for a ride, the driver told them to use the Lyft app to request one, the report said. But the suspects told the driver they had cash and would pay for a ride. The driver told them he’d take cash if their destination was nearby, and the suspects got in the car, one in the back passenger seat, the other in the front passenger seat, the report said.