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Uber driver arrested after police find guns, drugs in hidden compartment

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Uber driver arrested after police find guns, drugs in hidden compartment
By Christopher Carbone | Fox News


Fernando "Sosa" Rodriguez, 27, was arrested after drugs and a weapon were found on him and in his vehicle. (Stamford Police Department)

An off-duty Uber driver was busted in Conneticut with cocaine, marijuana and a gun after authorities received a tip that he would be in the area delivering drugs.

Stamford police officers arrested Fernando "Sosa" Rodriguez, 27, of Danbury, on Wednesday night.

Agents were set up on location and grabbed Rodriguez when he pulled up in a black Jeep SUV, drawing their weapons when he reached into the front of his pants, officials said.

According to the Greenwich Daily Voice, officers searched Rodriguez and the vehicle and found $758 in cash and two tied plastic baggies with 30 grams of cocaine inside, as well as an additional 120 grams of cocaine.

Stamford police officers then brought in K-9 Pyro, who brought them to a secret compartment behind the glove box where they discovered more cocaine and a silver and black Ruger 9-mm. semiautomatic pistol with nine rounds of ammunition next to it, Stamford Police Capt. Richard Conklin told the local publication.


(Stamford Police Department)

Rodriguez is a convicted felon who had a previous weapons charge, as well.
 
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#6 ·
Since he was an "off-duty" Uber driver why even mention he was an Uber driver in the first place?
It's well known that Uber drivers have been using the Uber emblem as cover to make their drug deals. Driving around late at night in shady neighborhoods. Even undercover cops have been doing the same to not raise suspicions. "Off duty" just meant he had no passengers.
 
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Felons are not allowed to drive school buses, take care of elderly, placed in posistions where underage minors are alone. So yeah felons should not be in the same posistions as ride-share where all those things exists and place the public and minors in danger. This guy could have sold drugs to his passengers and the possibly children. That's unless you think drug dealing felons obey the law and have morals lol! And oh yeah ones that carry fully loaded hand guns. Them are def the most caring drug dealers.
 
#12 ·
Since he was an "off-duty" Uber driver why even mention he was an Uber driver in the first place?
Because it sells the news. All of us would have skipped over this story and thought "Oh well, another Floridian drug dealer gets busted. We see that on every episode of Cops and Live PD." But now when you throw Uber driver in there it stirs the pot mighty thick.
 
#14 ·
When Houston instituted the now defunct fingerprinting/drug testing etc., uber at first didn't deactivate drivers without the permit. After a rape accusation by a felon who would not have passed the fingerprinting they finally cut off drivers who had not done it to get the permit.

We had crazy surge for a month or so until enough new drivers signed up. There were a lot of stories about just how many drivers couldn't get a permit: some had multiple aliases, felonies, DWIs...the list goes on.

Uber doesn't care if felons drive for them. They just want the pax to think they do.
 
#29 ·
Why does it matter if a felon is a driver if they weren't a violent offender?
If it's a simple Marijuana possession that's over a ounce then I don't feel like they should be grouped with all felons.
I'm a felon. I'm allowed to drive on all apps. Mine was simple possession over a ounce of Marijuana. No weapons, no jail time, only got bench probation for 3 years.
My record has been clean ever since and that was 20 years ago.
There's a reason why most states don't look back past 10 years when doing a background check.
 
#32 ·
The average American commits three felonies per day, every day of their adult life. About one-third of the people in prison today did not commit the crimes they were accused of, but because they are broke, poor, ignorant, or had very bad legal counsel, plead guilty to shorten a sentence for a crime they did not commit. Picking the path of least resistance out of necessity, and that's never justice.

The CFR is about 80,000 pages. No single person on the planet today knows all of the federal laws one could possibly violate.

State licensing agencies now have VERY long lists of so-called "felonies" that they not only ignore, they plead with applicants to keep it their self, because every unnecessary disclosure requires man-hours of tedious, boring, investigations to verify what they don't care about, wasting their funding on bovine scat. Hundreds, and soon thousands, of large employers aren't even including the "box" on job applications anymore, because not only does American incarcerate more people than any other nation, we have more ex-cons walking the street than any nation in all of history.

So anyone looking down their nose at someone because of the label "felon" -- remember, you're guilty, too. And you might one day be caught in the flytrap. Nobody is innocent in the eyes of the most jealous god: the state.
 
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