FRIENDSWOOD, Texas — A Houston rideshare driver has been cleared of kidnapping charges filed in August by the Friendswood Police Department.
Sameh Chami, 49, was arrested in August following an investigation after a 21-year-old woman told police that the Uber driver had abducted her in the early morning hours of June 28. Her relatives said they later found her sleeping in a car near an abandoned business. She told them that she’d been drinking earlier in the evening and was falling in and out of sleep on the ride home.
The Galveston County District Attorney’s Office did its own investigation and declined to indict Chami…