Crime & Safety
Tomball Man Arrested After Attacking Uber Driver: Police
A 23-year-old man who was accused of attacking an Uber driver outside a Tomball bar was arrested Saturday, police said.
TOMBALL, TX — A Tomball man was arrested Saturday after he allegedly assaulted an Uber driver, according to Harris County Pct. 4 deputy constables. Police were called to the Bombshells in the 24000 block of Tomball Parkway for a disturbance.
The Uber driver told deputies he'd been called by the management at Bombshells to pick up a man who was intoxicated.
When the man, identified as Joseph Ortiz, got into the car, the driver said Ortiz became belligerent and demanded to be taken back to the Bombshells.
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As he was driving back to Bombshells, the driver said Ortiz punched him several times in the back of the neck and the face.
Ortiz was arrested and charged with assault-bodily injury. A judge set his bond at $1,000.
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