PITTSBURGH \u2014 A rideshare driver is charged with sexually assaulting a woman he picked up from a party near Pitt\u2019s campus. <\/p>\n
Reporter Gabriella DeLuca confirmed late Tuesday afternoon that the driver is in custody, two months after police say he took the woman to her home, then raped her. <\/p>\n
According to police, in March, Al Ghurairi picked up a woman who was celebrating \u201cPitts Patty Day\u201d on Semple Street, after her friends called her a ride.<\/p>\n
Detectives tell Channel 11, the victim\u2019s friend told Al Ghurairi, \u201cThis is my friend. She\u2019s drunk and needs to get home safe.\u201d <\/p>\n
He responded, \u201cYeah, I can tell.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
That\u2019s when police say he drove her to her home in Shadyside and raped her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The next day, the victim called police and went to the hospital for a sexual assault exam.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After weeks of investigating license plate readers, Uber records, and interviewing witnesses, officers just charged Al Ghurairi.\u00a0He is now in the Allegheny County Jail<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Uber told Channel 11 that he has been banned since the incident was reported in March.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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