Crime & Safety

Cabbie Arrested in Evanston, Charged With Sexually Assaulting Passenger

The taxi driver is charged with sexually assaulting a woman after she fell asleep in his cab.

A 303 Taxi driver was arrested in Evanston Thursday on charges that he sexually assaulted a passenger on Halloween night, the Chicago Tribune reports

Tajamul Hussain Syed, of the 6300 block of North Rockwell Street, allegedly pulled down a woman's costume pants and sexually assaulted her while she was asleep in the cab on the far northwest side of Chicago, according to the Tribune

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