Not exactly what the taxi contingent wants in the news, but …
The incident began at about 8 p.m. as the Connecticut Towing and Recovery driver prepared to hook up Yellow Cab number 19 on State Street, Sgt. Paul Vinett said.
Seeing this, Magloire Cayo, 53, of 25 Chestnut St., began yelling at the woman and jumped into the driver’s seat of the cab he had been driving, police said.
Connecticut Towing and Recovery owner Wayne Masone said yesterday the owner of Yellow Cab requested the cab be picked up because Cayo was delinquent on fees for the car and taxi license, owned by Yellow Cab.
When the tow operator came to the passenger window to explain what she was doing, Cayo punched her in the face and yanked her off her feet by grabbing her shirt collar, Vinett said.
Pulling the woman halfway into the cab and leaving her legs and feet dangling out the window, Cayo then drove off down Monroe Street next to the police station before turning south on South Main Street, Vinett said.
Heading down Henry Street over to Bates Court, where another bridge underpass guided the cab back to Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, the woman told police Cayo swung the cab hard to the right, seemingly to throw her out the window, Vinett said.
The woman also said Cayo appeared to be driving so close to parked cars that she thought he was trying to break her legs, Vinett said.
As Cayo pulled back onto State Street, where the dangerous ride began near the South Norwalk railroad station, a officer was responding to several calls reporting the disturbance outside the station.
When the officer pulled up, he saw the woman’s legs dangling out the passenger window. When the cab came to a stop on State Street, near Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, the woman wriggled out of the window, visibly upset, Vinett said.
Cayo is charged with first-degree kidnapping, criminal attempt at reckless endangerment, first-degree reckless endangerment, third-degree assault and second-degree breach of peace
source: Advocate, Cabbie arrested after wild ride, By John Nickerson, 05/17/2008
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