Migrant Uber Driver Arrested for “Aggravated Kidnapping” of Female Passenger
by Warner Todd Huston 12 Aug 2025
Police in Friendswood, Texas, have arrested a migrant Uber driver for “aggravated kidnapping” of a female passenger who was later rescued by relatives monitoring her location.
Sameh Chami, 49, had picked the woman up outside Buckshot’s Saloon in Galveston in the early morning hours of June 28 and was hired to drive her to her home in Friendswood, about 40 minutes away.
The 21-year-old woman had alerted her family that she was on the way home and in due course, the Uber app alerted them that the woman had been dropped off outside her home. However, the woman did not appear at home. Family members used the missing woman’s cell phone location to find her and they told police they discovered the Uber driver in an empty parking lot several miles away with their daughter in the front seat with him, KRIV-TV reported.
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