A 35-year-old woman is confronted with a large number of charges After she reportedly threatened to shoot her Uber driver and, once arrested, it was “Oprah”.
According to a Chicago police report, the incident started when a Uber driver reported that his passenger threatened to shoot him in the 600 block of West 63rd Street late on 13 June. The passenger is said to have shown a firearm magazine while making the threat and then finished the car, the south on Wentworth.
Officers found Gabraell Griffin in the neighborhood and stopped her because she matched the description of the Uber driver: a black woman with large hair dressed in completely black. During the arrest, the police would have found an ammunition magazine with inert training ammunition of her.
Griffin refused to provide her real name or any identifying information and insisted that she was ‘Oprah’, according to the report. It stated that she proceeded to an officer in the knee and another in the stomach.
Right James Murphy III ordered Griffin released on electronic monitoring with a curfew. She is accused of aggravated battery from a peace officer, battery, worsened attack and the impediment of identification.
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