FHP: Man carjacks Uber driver, strands him on I-195 in Miami

MIAMI – A 30-year-old man faces a number of felony costs after state troopers accused him of carjacking an Uber driver after which stranding him on Interstate 195 in Miami early Monday night.

In accordance with a Florida Freeway Patrol arrest report, the sufferer informed troopers that he picked up Rafael Dos Santo Barbosa, a Brazilian nationwide who resides in Marina Del Rey, California, from Mount Sinai Medical Heart.

Miami-Dade Hearth Rescue had taken a “disoriented” Dos Santo Barbosa to Mount Sinai earlier that day after receiving a sick individual name, Surfside police informed troopers.

In accordance with the report, as they drove on I-195 simply earlier than 5:30 p.m., Dos Santo Barbosa ordered the Uber driver to cease his SUV and hit him with an umbrella.

The motive force, “in concern for his life”, stopped on the westbound ramp resulting in northbound Interstate 95, troopers stated.

Troopers stated Dos Santo Barbosa then took the wheel and left his driver stranded within the “harmful,” busy space, additionally taking his cellphone.

A pal of Dos Santo Barbosa’s referred to as police to a house in northeast Miami-Dade after seeing him pull up within the blue Hyundai Tucson, which she discovered suspicious, the report states.

Dos Santo Barbosa faces costs of carjacking, aggravated battery, second-degree armed grand theft and third-degree grand theft.

He was being held within the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Heart with out bond and on an immigration maintain.