A Lyft driver has been arrested for sexually assaulting a passenger on a trip from West Hollywood to Santa Monica.
A Lyft driver has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a passenger on a trip from West Hollywood to Santa Monica.
On Wednesday afternoon, Santa Monica police announced the arrest of 34-year-old Fernando Macias Morales of Los Angeles. On Sept. 7, investigators responded to Pennsylvania Avenue in Santa Monica, after a woman reported her driver picked her up from a restaurant in West Hollywood and then sexually assaulted her on her drive home.
Santa Monica police said the woman fell asleep in the car and then woke up to the man inappropriately touching her. The Los Angeles District Attorney’s office has charged Morales with felony counts of kidnapping to commit a sexual act, sexual penetration and oral copulation of a person intoxicated or under sedation. Get Los Angeles's latest local news on crime, entertainment, weather, schools, COVID, cost of living and more. Here's your go-to source for today's LA news.
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