FRIENDSWOOD, TX – A Houston rideshare driver has been arrested and charged with Aggravated Kidnapping after he allegedly ended a ride early and stopped in a vacant parking lot with a sleeping passenger.
On June 28, the Friendswood Police Department received a report from a 21-year-old woman who had been picked up in Galveston by a pre-scheduled rideshare. Her family, who were tracking her location, noticed the ride had been prematurely ended at a vacant business parking lot instead of their Friendswood home.
Family members drove to the parking lot and found the woman in the front seat of the vehicle. They safely removed her and took her home. She told them she had been falling in and out of sleep on the ride home after drinking earlier in the evening…