SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) A woman seen coughing on and verbally attacking a San Francisco Uber driver in a viral video is now in custody, according to city jail records.
ABC7 s Dion Lim broke the news Sunday night that 24-year-old Arna Kimiai turned herself in to SFPD.
: ARNA KIMIAI the woman seen coughing on Uber Driver Subhakar Khadka has finally turned herself into @SFPD! This comes after the woman in red Malaysia King was arrested in Las Vegas on Thursday. pic.twitter.com/iuSStiZa59 Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) March 15, 2021
She faces charges of first degree robbery, battery on a transit employee and conspiracy to commit a crime.
SFPD says it worked with the Las Vegas Police Department to apprehend 24-year-old Malaysia King.
Another suspect, 24-year-old Arna Kimiai, has yet to be arrested but told SFPD through her legal counsel that she would be turning herself in. We re glad to hear that Ms. Kimiai intends to do the right thing and turn herself into the nearest law enforcement agency, and we hope it happens promptly, said Lt. Tracy McCray,
Video sent to ABC7 News showed Kimiai, King, and another woman coughing, harassing, and attacking an Uber driver after he asked one of them to wear a mask.
On Tuesday, Subhakar Khadka told us that he feared for his life during the incident and was so traumatized he didn t want to return to work.
The incident happened Monday afternoon in San Francisco
An Instagram account that appears to belong to one of the women in the car posted several public videos of the incident.
The owner of the account claims that the driver was about to drop them off in a bad neighborhood or on the side of the freeway and that the video he shared did not capture the entire incident.
In the videos, the driver Subhakar Khadka pulls into a gas station so that one of the women can buy a mask, but as she gets out of the car the driver can be heard saying that he was canceling the ride. He then asks the woman to get out of the car because he was going home.