Puerto Morelos, Q.R. — Three Puerto Morelos taxi drivers have been arrested for assaulting a potential Uber passenger. Their arrests were announced late Wednesday night. “The FGE of Quintana Roo arrested three taxi drivers from Puerto Morelos involved in an assault on a user of the digital platform service,” the agency said.
Police say the three cab drivers were arrested after being identified in a social media video where they are seen intimidating a tourist and forcing him to cancel his arrived Uber service and use their taxi service instead.
In a statement, police said they arrested “three people, taxi drivers by trade, who were fully identified after the publication on social networks of a video where it is seen how they intimidate a tourist to force him to cancel a transportation service on the digital platform.”
The Puerto Morelos cab drivers have been identified by police as Alberto Daniel “N”, José Alberto “N” and Brayan “N”, members of the César Martín Rosado Taxi Drivers Union of Puerto Morelos.
“At the time of their capture, they had the vehicles involved in the attack seized,” police added in their statement.
Elements of the Investigative Police seized substances similar to narcotics from Alberto Daniel “N” during his arrest. Police did not say what those narcotics were. However, Alberto Daniel “N” was transferred to the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Playa del Carmen. José Alberto “N” and Brayan “N”, they were transferred to the office of the State Attorney General (FGE).
The FGE says they have already requested the Mobility Institute of the State of Quintana Roo cancel the concessions of the three units involved as well as their driving licenses.
In a statement, Raciel López Salazar, head of the State Attorney General’s Office, said “any act that puts the integrity of local users and national and international visitors at risk will not be permitted, nor will it be concealed, much less tolerated in Quintana Roo.”
