Smyrna Uber Driver Beaten, Pepper-Sprayed, Robbed

ATLANTA, GA — An Uber driver from Smyrna was beaten and pepper-sprayed over the weekend by two other women, who stole her car after she picked them up in downtown Atlanta.

An Atlanta Police Department officer was called at about 9:15 a.m. Saturday to Langston Avenue in regard to a fight and a woman laying on the ground, bleeding. The officer arrived to find Cricket Diggs, of Smyrna, on the ground.
She had a cut under her left eye and cuts on her hands, legs and feet, according to police.

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Diggs told police that she is a driver for Uber and had picked up two women, who appeared to be about 30 years old, near Georgia State University's Patton Hall.

Diggs said she dropped off two other passengers, then noticed that the two women in her Honda Civic had not given her a destination. She stopped and asked the women to get out of her car, at which point one of the women got "very angry" and refused to leave.

Diggs started to call 911. The woman, wearing a striped dress, said "No, I'm not going back there," according to police. The woman got into the front seat, took the keys out of the ignition, then got out and walked around to the driver's side door.

"This is my car now," she told Diggs, according to an APD report.

She then punched Diggs in the face several times, causing her to fall in the passenger seat. The other woman then pulled Diggs out of her car and sprayed her with pepper spray, police say. The woman in the dress then got in the driver's seat and started driving, while Digg still was partially in the car.

The women kept punching Diggs while the car was moving, according to the report. She finally fell all the way out near the intersection of Langston Avenue and Carnes Place.

Diggs was taken to Atlanta Medical Center for treatment. Later Saturday, East Point Police found her Honda at an address on Pointview Drive.

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