Phony Lyft Driver Accused Of Sexual Assault

Birmingham AL

03 February, 2022

11:20 AM

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BIRMINGHAM, AL — A man police say posed as a Lyft driver and sexually assaulted a passenger has been charged with rape, sodomy and kidnapping. Officer Truman Fitzgerald of the Birmingham Police Department said 40-year-old Cardallle Bruce Osby in October of 2021 posed as a Lyft driver and picked up a woman as a passenger, and took her to an apartment in east Birmingham where he held her against her will and sexually assaulted her. Osby was arrested by Hoover police Jan. 20 during a traffic stop, and is in custody at the Jefferson County Jail where he is held on $180,000 bond.