Add The New York Post on Google An illegal immigrant rideshare driver accused of sexually assaulting a teenage female passenger in Maryland has a history of sex abuse in New York, federal authorities said.
Abdoulaye Dia, of Lanham, Maryland, was charged with first-degree rape, kidnapping, second-degree assault and third-degree sex offense, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said.
On Tuesday, Montgomery County Police officers were called to a hospital where an underage teen girl reported a rape.
She told police she was raped by an Empower rideshare driver.
Dia, a citizen of Guinea, took her to a parking lot in Silver Spring, where the alleged assault occurred.
Investigators identified Dia through information obtained from the rideshare app.
Dia was previously arrested June 10 in New York City for sexual abuse by forcible compulsion, forcible touching of the sexual/intimate parts of another person, injuring a child less than 17 and sexual abuse without consent, a DHS spokesperson told Fox News.
Empower rideshare driver and illegal immigrant Abdoulaye Dia was arrested and charged with raping a teenage passenger in Maryland after a prior arrest in NYC. Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images He entered the United States illegally through Arizona in December 2023 and was released by the Biden administration, DHS said.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Empower for comment.
