Fired Seattle police officer being investigated for unlawfully imprisoning his Uber passenger

SEATTLE – A former Seattle police officer is being investigated after he was accused of unlawful imprisonment by a passenger in an Uber he was driving.

The officer, whom Q13 News isn’t naming because he hasn’t been charged, was fired by the Seattle Police Department last year after an investigation found he made unwanted advances on several women he met during the course of investigations.

The incident currently under investigation began in December, when the woman ordered an Uber ride. She said began getting frightened when the former officer began talking about the anger he has for women.

She said when they got to her home, she got out and lit a cigarette. She said the former officer pressured her to get back in the car while she smoked, and that once she did he drove off with her in the car.

The woman said she told him that she needed to be home because she had to get up early, but that he told her he was going to show her the sights in Capitol Hill. She said he began pointing out various places where he’d investigated crimes, and that he kept her in the car for about an hour.

When they got back to her home, she says, the former officer kissed her and asked for her number. She said he asked for her phone number and told her that if she lied about it, he’d know from her Uber information.

The woman said she received several texts from him over the next several months, and that they weren’t threatening but were “strange.” She said this continued until last month, when the man made it into the locked courtyard of her apartment building and left her a handwritten message asking her to call him.

She said she called the police because she feared the former officer was trying to get into her apartment.