Police in Florida have arrested a man who worked as an Uber driver and accused him of sexually assaulting three women this year.
Xolani Mtsitsha of Boca Raton was arrested Thursday and faces sexual battery charges, according to a statement posted on Facebook by the Boynton Beach Police Department.
Mtsitsha, who police said “terrorized three women in our city this year,” is being held on $150,000 bond in the Palm Beach County Jail, police said.
Police said the assaults took place in January, June and July and were carried out in the same location an industrial area on the city’s southeast side.
According to a police report cited by the Sun Sentinel, Mtsitsha told police that two of the women offered him sex in exchange for giving them a lift.
One woman, the report states, refused to have sex with him without a condom before he unexpectedly drove her to the industrial location and raped her. He agreed to take a second woman to a homeless shelter before driving her to the same location without warning, the report states, according to the paper.
“When they arrived, she realized she was in danger and began to cry, the report said,” the Sun Sentinel reported. “The man held her face down and raped her before dropping her off around Clint Moore Road, the report said.”
“The woman told investigators that the man kept saying, ‘You’re making me mad, you don’t want to get me mad.’ ”
The woman allegedly assaulted in July was able to give police Mtsitsha’s license plate number, allowing them to track him down, the paper reported.
After acquiring a DNA sample and reviewing cellphone records, investigators were able to execute a search warrant, the paper reported.