Fake Uber Driver Sexually Assaults Two Women In Skokie: Police

SKOKIE, IL — A fake Uber driver has been charged with kidnapping and sexually assaulting two women in the last month, police said Tuesday.

Musaab S. Afandi, 33, was charged Monday with three counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault and two counts of aggravated kidnapping, according to the Skokie Police Department.

Afandi, who lives in Glenview, allegedly sexually assaulted at least two women after picking them up outside different bars or nightclubs in Chicago by impersonating an Uber driver. He then drove the women to Skokie, where he sexually assaulted them, police said.

Skokie police got the first 9-1-1 call around 4:30 a.m. on Feb. 12. The second incident was reported around 3:30 a.m. on March 19.

Police said Afandi's victims had each ordered an Uber before he abducted them. The women provided Skokie police the necessary information to identify and arrest him, they said.

Afandi has been ordered held held without bond at Cook County Jail ahead of an April court date, according to police.

Skokie police asked anyone with more information on this or other such crimes to call them at (847) 982-5900.