Police: Man Arrested After Threatening Uber Driver, Refusing to Get Out of Car

Nov 23, 2019, 9:04 AM

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KSLTV.com

WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah – A man was arrested early Saturday morning after an Uber driver called police claiming his passenger had threatened him.

The Uber driver left his car parked in the middle of the street at 3862 West and Christopherson Drive to call the police. They said they had to send a dog to drag the man out of the car after they couldn’t talk him out.

The man has been identified as Dyson Gorman. He was booked into jail on the investigation of aggravated assault.

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