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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Crime Alert 02.17.25 | Drunken NYC Taxi Passenger Beats Driver, Steals Cab

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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True Crime, News

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

A drunken NYC taxi passenger beats his driver over a fare dispute, then steals his cab! Thief tries to make off with $18,000 robot server!

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0:00.0

Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking Crime News now. Mame Guy gets in a drunken argument with his New York City taxi driver when his payment cards declined. The driver asks him to get out. He does, but when the driver follows him,

0:14.4

Guy shoves him to the ground, punches him in the stomach, then wraps his hands around the driver's neck. He eventually lets go. It takes off in the cab while

0:22.7

the 47-year-old driver tries to catch his breath. A few miles later, Guy crashes the cab into a

0:28.8

parked car. He's quickly caught by police. Nancy, Guy ran from the scene of the crash on foot,

0:34.0

but only makes it about a block before he's putting cuffs. Guy has one previous arrest

0:38.7

for DUI back in 2023. The taxi driver treated at the scene of his attack, but did not require

0:44.6

hospitalization. The NYC Taxi and Limo Commission commented on the assault, quote,

0:50.0

violence against the city's hardworking drivers as deplorable and were grateful to the NYPD for quickly bringing the individual who committed this outrageous assault and theft into custody.

1:00.4

Mame Guy, 25, now charged with robbery, grand larceny, DUI, and assault.

1:07.9

A Florida man walks into a high-tech fa restaurant that uses robot servers, 20 minutes

1:13.6

before opening, and asked if he can use their restroom. Employees agree, but the man quickly

1:19.1

doubles back from the restroom and awkwardly tries to carry one of their four-feet-tall robot

1:24.9

waitrons out the door. Employees yell at him to stop, but the man gets

1:30.0

the bot loaded into the back of his car. The robot's only inside the car about 10 seconds before

1:35.1

employees wrestle the hot bot back into the restaurant and tackle the thief. The robot worth

1:41.9

nearly $18,000, but it's worthless outside the location where it's

1:47.6

programmed to work. The unnamed robot robber now facing grand larceny. I hate to think

1:54.9

of what he was going to do with the robot waitress. More crime and justice news after this.

2:08.7

Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, crime online's John Limley.

2:14.8

A New York jury has convicted three men in a deadly scheme that targeted clubgoers in Manhattan.

2:22.4

Prosecutors say 37-year-old Jaquan Hamilton, 36-year-old Robert DiMio, and 32-year-old Jacob Barroso befriended victims at nightclubs and bars, drugged them, and then robbed them,

2:28.1

leaving two men dead.

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