Illegal immigrant rideshare driver charged with rape in Maryland had prior NYC sex abuse arrest: DHS
Empower screened him July 16. DHS says he already had a June 10 New York sex-abuse arrest, and a 2023 Arizona release.
Summary
- Fox News reports DHS identified Abdoulaye Dia, a Guinea national and Empower rideshare driver, as the man charged with first-degree rape, kidnapping, second-degree assault, and third-degree sex offense after an underage teen told Montgomery County police she was raped in a Silver Spring parking lot.
- Officers were called to a hospital Tuesday. Investigators identified Dia through the rideshare app. Empower told Fox its background, sex-offender, motor-vehicle, Social Security, and global-watchlist checks on July 16, 2026, did not reveal any incidents, and that it gave police the requested files.
- A DHS spokesperson told Fox Dia was previously arrested June 10 in New York City for sexual abuse by forcible compulsion, forcible touching, injuring a child under 17, and sexual abuse without consent.
- DHS said he entered illegally through Arizona in December 2023 and was released by the Biden administration.
Commentary
A night-shift mom still waits on a vinyl hospital chair and knows a rideshare pin is supposed to mean a clean name, not a June 10 New York file. She did not send a teenager into a Silver Spring lot so a 2023 Arizona release could drive the next fare.
December 2023. June 10. July 16. Tuesday. Four dates. The screening came back clean after the New York arrest. The linoleum in that Montgomery intake still sticks. The honest household already bought the overtime for the agents who should have held him in Arizona.
Look every working mother who still tracks a daughter's phone after dark in the eye and answer this: if a 2023 release already had a June sex-abuse arrest, who still owns the next Empower pin a sanctuary desk left live?
Comments
Arizona December 2023. NYC June 10. Silver Spring Tuesday. Keep the three.
I stood a gate so a teen fare still meant a clean name. A release is not a chauffeur card.
Dia. Empower July 16. First-degree rape charge. Print the three.
Allied apps still treat a sex-abuse arrest as a hard stop, not a missed ping.
Entered. Released. Arrested in New York. Then a Maryland teen. File the four.
I still wait in a hospital lot. I want the next pin to come from a legal driver.
A clean screen after a June arrest is not a glitch. It is a warning the street already paid.
A 2023 release behind a wheel is a second border around every school pickup.
Fox printed Dia, Empower, and the June 10 New York file. Argue those nouns.
Honor the hold. Kill the next release. A teen fare is not a souvenir.
