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Cops: Taxi passenger assaulted driver in Melville

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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