Taxi Driver Assault: Dahlberg Preliminary Hearing Pushed to August 9

The preliminary court date for Ed Dahlberg, the Clifton resident accused of breaking the jaw of 39-year-old taxi driver Mohamed Salim and fleeing the scene on foot, has been pushed from May 24 to Aug. 9, 2013.  

Dahlberg, 52, is charged with misdemeanor assault and failing to pay a taxi driver on the early morning of Friday, April 26. 

Mohamed of Great Falls, took an 11 minutes of video of Dahlberg drunkenly arguing over Muslim extremism. 

See: Dahlberg Attorney Releases Statement on Alleged Taxi Cab Assault 

Man Charged with Assaulting Muslim Cab Driver from Great Falls

Salim, a US Army veteran, picked up Dahlberg at the Country Club of Fairfax at around midnight. 

“If you’re a [expletive] Muslim flying jets into the World Trade Center, then [expletive] you, I will slice your [expletive] throat right now,” Dahlberg said.

Dahlberg then knocked the phone away as Salim tried to call the police, and fled the scene on foot.

Salim claims that Dahlberg returned, compared him to the Boston Marathon bombers, punched him repeatedly and then ran off into the woods. Salim is trying to get Dahlberg's potential sentencing over the alleged assault increased by classifying it as a hate crime. 

Dahlberg is president of Emerald Aviation, Inc., which he founded in 1995. The Emerald website is currently down, undergoing "scheduled maintenance".

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