An investigation is active after a woman told police she believed she’d been drugged while in an Uber.
The woman reported the incident to Bloomington Police Department on Monday, but the incident happened Jan. 17, BPD Lt. John Kovach said.
The woman, whose age was not taken by the officer who took the report, went out that night with friends first to Uptown Bar, where she had one drink, and then to Atlas Bar, where she had one more, Kovach said.
After the drink at Atlas Bar, at about 11:30 p.m., she decided to go home, and a friend called her an Uber, Kovach said.
When she got in the car, the Uber driver offered her a bottle of water, which she drank from, she told police.
The driver was directed to take her home but skipped the appropriate turn, the woman told police. She told him several times to turn, which he ignored. As they drove on South Walnut Street, near Mays Greenhouse, she told him to let her out immediately because her uncle lived nearby.
Her uncle did not actually lived nearby, she told police. She just wanted out of the car.
She then ran, fell into a ditch and hit a tree, Kovach said. She called a friend but had a hard time describing her location until a bystander came to help. Her friend picked her up and took her home.
She told police she believed she’d been drugged because she didn’t feel right after drinking from the water bottle, but she couldn’t describe the feeling any further.
She said she received an Uber receipt with a photo of the driver, but that the man in the photo was not the driver she had that night. She described the driver she had as a man between 45 and 55 years old.
She told police she didn’t know why she’d waited so long to report the incident, but she ultimately decided to report it in case something similar happens to someone else.
Jack Evans
