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Cops: Taxi passenger assaulted driver in Melville
Quick ReadSuffolk police arrested a California woman who is accused of spraying pepper spray in the eyes of a cab driver before fleeing without paying her $150 fare.
Photo credit: Handout | Amina Williams of Redwood City, Calif., was charged with third-degree assault and unlawful possession of noxious material, police said. Williams, Suffolk police said, refused to pay a $142 cab fare, then shot pepper spray at the cabdriver and fled before being arrested a short time later. She was scheduled to be arraigned Jan. 8, 2010.
A woman who refused to pay her $142 fare shot pepper spray into the eye of a cabdriver and then fled before being arrested a short time later on an assault charge, Suffolk police said.
Amina Williams, of Redwood City, Calif., asked cabdriver Alexander Oseimensuo to take her from the Hilton New York Hotel on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan to Melville on Saturday and agreed to the fare, police and...
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