A Former Lyft driver accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a passenger in Elk Grove Village and Mount Prospect was sentenced 5 years.
A driver for Lyft who is charged with kidnapping and sexually assaulting a passenger in the northwest suburbs is being held on bond as of Tuesday afternoon.A driver for Lyft accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a passenger in the northwest suburbs in 2019 was sentenced to five years in prison.
Sowa was working as a driver for Lyft when he allegedly picked up a female passenger on May 2 and drove her to Elk Grove Village instead of the address she requested in Des Plaines, police said. According to police, once they arrived at a parking lot near Busse and Oakton, Sowa proceeded to sexually assault the victim. He then drove her from Elk Grove Village to a parking garage adjacent to the Mount Prospect Village Hall and library, where he sexually assaulted her again, police said.She was able to free herself from Sowa at the parking garage at 30 S. Emerson St. and found someone to call 911 for her about 10 a.m., police said.
In court, it was disclosed the former Lyft driver is homeless and unable to afford the $1,000 bail he needed to post to be released from custody.
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