Former Uber driver convicted for 2021 sexual assault has another victim, prosecutors say
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — An Oklahoma man and former rideshare driver currently serving time in state prison for a 2021 sexual assault is back in trouble for a similar alleged crime.
Timothy Greene is currently serving a 10-year sentence. Investigators say in 2021, while working as a rideshare driver, he picked up a woman from an Edmond bar who had been drinking, sexually assaulted her and abandoned her.
Court documents obtained by News 4 Friday allege Greene sexually assaulted another female passenger two years before that incident. An affidavit says in 2019, Oklahoma City Police responded to a sexual assault call in Northwest Oklahoma City. The documents say the victim was visibly intoxicated from attending a party that evening. Documents say the victim's mother caught Greene sexually assaulting her in his vehicle. The victim told police she never consented to his sexual contact.
"We have people that, they seem to fall into a certain pattern or certain crime," said Oklahoma City attorney Robert Gifford, who is not connected to the case. "It feeds a need that would not be natural or healthy or lawful."
Documents further say DNA was obtained from the 2019 victim's sexual assault exam that was determined to belong to Greene because it was flagged in connection to a similar sexual assault. Greene denied to be interviewed by detectives about the case. This month Oklahoma City Police filed a search warrant in Oklahoma County court asking a judge to grant them access to more DNA samples from Greene, directly from his mouth.
"As a prosecutor, you want to show that, you know, that this is a pattern of conduct," said Gifford.
Greene is set to appear back in court next month. Gifford says it's important to note not every rideshare driver has bad intentions, but that everyone who uses a rideshare service needs to keep cases like these in mind.
"You don't know that person," said Gifford. "Whether it's a physical harm, whether it's battery, whether it's a sexual assault or even worse, it's now, it's opened up an opportunity for these people to become to find those targets."