A South Florida rideshare driver is accused of picking up intoxicated women before drugging and sexually assaulting them is facing additional charges after more alleged victims have been linked to the alleged crimes that police say involve another suspect.
Danny Estalin Maurad-Avecillas, 49, has been behind bars since he was arrested back in February on charges including credit card fraud and kidnapping.
One alleged victim, 21-year-old woman, reported a possible sexual battery that happened on Sept. 29,2023. The woman said she’d gone out drinking and became separated from her friends around 2 a.m. She ended up at a club in Mary Brickell Village and thought someone ordered her an Uber, and said she woke up in a vehicle.
She said she had no recollection of the night until she was dropped off in a rideshare vehicle around 7 a.m. a few blocks from her home, the reports said.
The woman said she found her underwear in her purse and her phone, wallet and camera were missing.
A witness who assisted the woman is getting into the Uber asked the driver for his info, and later sent the victim a photo of the contact info with the name ‘Dani Uber’ and a phone number, the reports said.
The witness was given a photo lineup and identified Maurad-Avecillas as the driver who picked up the victim. Records showed the phone number belonged to Maurad-Avecillas.
A second alleged victim, A 22-year-old woman said that on Aug. 19, 2023, she went out to drink with a co-workers in Brickell. Around 2 a.m. on Aug. 20, she was unable to find her friends and ended up in a vehicle but had no recollection of how she got into the vehicle, the reports said. The woman said she passed out and woke-up and found a man was on top of her raping her while a second man was driving the vehicle, the reports said.
Maurad-Avecillas later confessed that ‘on more than one occasion he has placed incoherent females into his vehicle, transported them to a motel and has removed their belongings to keep them safe from someone following them or tracking them,” an arrest report said.
Maurad-Avecillas, of Miami, remains held without bond, jail records showed.
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