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Police: Man claiming to be Uber driver sexually assaulted woman A Pleasant Hill man faces serious charges after police say he claimed to be an Uber driver and sexually assaulted a woman. Share Shares Copy Link Copy

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STEVE: RIGHT NOW. POLICE SAY THIS PLEASANT HILL MAN SEXUALLY ASSAULTED A WOMAN AFTER HE LIED TO HER AND HER FRIEND ABOUT BEING AN UBER DRIVER. STACEY: HE PICKED THEM UP OUTSIDE WELLS FARGO ARENA DOWNTOWN. KCCI’S BEAU BOWMAN IS LIVE THER WITH THE DETAILS. BEAU: THE CRIMINAL COMPLAINT SAYS NIRMAL CHHETRI TOLD TWO WOMEN HE WAS AN OFF-DUTY UBER DRIVER AND WOULD DRIVE THEM HOME. EXCEPT HE TOOK THEM TO HIS HOUSE INSTEAD. , IT ALL STARTED HERE, OUTSIDE OF THE WELLS FARGO ARENA EARLY SUNDAY MORNING, THE CRIMINAL COMPLAINT SAYS THAT’S WHERE TW WOMEN WERE WALKING WHEN NIRMAL CHHETRI DROVE UP TO THEM, CLAIMED TO BE AN OFF-DUTY UBER DRIVER, AND OFFERED THEM A RIDE HOME. POLICE TOLD KCCI MONDAY THAT CHHETRI IS NOT AN UBER DRIVER AT ALL. THE COMPLAINT SAYS THE TWO WOMEN LATER TOLD POLICE THEY WERE REALLY INTOXICATED AND THEIR PHONE BATTERIES WERE BOTH DEAD SO THEY AGREED AND GOT IN THE CA >> THEY ARE EVERYDAY VEHICLES, SO DON’T THINK YOU HAVE ORDERED ONE, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ALL THOSE THINGS MATCH UP IN JUST HOP INTO A VEHICLE. BEAU: INSTEAD OF TAKING THEM HOME THE COMPLAINT SAYS CHHETRI TOOK THEM TO HIS HOUSE IN PLEASANT HILL, NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF NORTHEAST 60TH STREET AND EAST OAKWOOD DRIVE. THE COMPLAINT SAYS CHHETRI HAD THEM SLEEP IN DIFFERENT BEDROOMS. ONE OF THE WOMEN SAID SHE HEARD CHHETRI ASSAULTING THE OTHER WOMAN IN THE OTHER BEDROOM. SHE TOLD POLICE USED HER OWN FINGERNAIL TO PICK THE LOCK AND GET INTO THE OTHER BEDROOM WHERE SHE SAID SHE FOUND BOTH CHHETRI AND THE OTHER WOMAN WITH THEIR PANTS UNDONE. THE TWO WOMEN THEN LEFT THE HOUSE AND WALKED TO A NEARBY KUM & GO WHERE THEY CALLED THE POLICE. PLEASANT HILL POLICE SAY THAT YOU SHOULD ALWAYS CALL SOMEO $10,000 BOND