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Uber Driver Pleads Guilty to Abduction | Auckland News
A New Zealand man with a violent criminal history has pleaded guilty to horrific new charges after posing as an Uber driver, abducting and severely assaulting a woman — including strangulation — before she escaped. This follows his earlier 20-year U.S. sentence for kidnapping and carjacking involving another victim bound, gagged, and sexually assaulted over 1,700 km. DNA and physical evidence tied him directly to the crime, and prosecutors now seek preventive detention — an indefinite sentence — due to his extreme danger to the public. His sentencing is set for February next year. Listen in…
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