Lyft driver drugged in Alpharetta restaurant before waking up in hotel after rape, police say WSB-TV Channel 2 [Video]

ALPHARETTA, Ga. — A man who took a rideshare last month has been arrested after police say he drugged, kidnapped and raped his driver.

Officers with the Alpharetta Department of Public Safety say a woman reported to them that she was driving for Lyft on March 11 when she picked up a man as a passenger in Gwinnett County and drove him to a restaurant in Alpharetta.

Police told Channel 2′s Bryan Mims that the passenger invited the driver inside to talk about business opportunities.

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“Inside, they both had a drink with one another and, at some point during that interaction, the female reported that she blacked out and she could not recall anything else from that evening,” said Capt. Andrew Splawn.

He said the woman woke up the next morning in an Alpharetta hotel room. She told police she had been raped and her …