GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — An Uber passenger was arrested Saturday after police said he pulled a gun on his driver and attempted to kidnap her before she was able to escape from the moving car.
It happened in Grand Junction late Friday night. The suspect, 23-year-old Adam Salaz, was located in Carlsbad, New Mexico Saturday, and arrested on a kidnapping and theft warrant out of Mesa County.
The female Uber driver picked up Salaz from an address in Fruita, a small town west of the city, and proceeded to head to the passenger’s destination in downtown Grand Junction, police said.
At some point during the trip, Salaz allegedly pulled a gun on the driver and demanded the driver take him to the desert.
But the victim, driving a 2019 Toyota CHR, decided to jump out of the moving vehicle instead and make her escape, according to police.
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