Police, Taxi | Allegedly refused to let the passengers out of the taxi and then threatened them to pay for earlier trips

– It was about a male passenger who felt threatened to pay for a taxi ride that a woman had previously avoided paying for, says operations manager at the police in the South-East police district, Tommy Bjerkholt Eriksen, to Østlands-Posten early Friday morning.

Locked the doors

The police were notified of the incident shortly before 11pm on Thursday evening. It was a man who called the police and said that he, together with his girlfriend, had taken a taxi ride which ended in Kongegata in Larvik.

– However, when the two were about to make up and get out of the taxi, the driver locked the door and demanded that the male passenger pay for a previous taxi ride, which the same driver had carried out, says Bjerkholt Eriksen.

This taxi trip is said to have taken place approximately three months ago, and the man is said to have taken the trip together with another woman. This woman then, instead of paying for the trip, is said to have jumped out of the taxi and disappeared. Now the driver knew the man who was with the woman again, and demanded that he pay for the trip on Thursday night, in addition to the trip three months ago.

Get scared

Bjerkholt Eriksen says that the person in question told them that the two passengers were told that they could not get out of the taxi until they had paid NOK 800 to cover the trip three months ago, and claimed that the driver said that there would be “noise”, if both trips were not paid for.

– The reporter says that he was scared, and that the man chose to give the driver his bank card and to pay for both trips. The driver must have used the card to pay for both trips, and only then did the two passengers get out of the taxi, he says.

– We know the taxi’s license number, and we have recommended that the male driver report the incident, says Bjerkholt Eriksen.

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– Unknown

Østlands-Posten has no more information about the alleged incident than what the operations manager tells us. We do not get information about who the driver is and thus cannot contact him.

Since we do not have the names of those involved, general manager Erik Horn of Vestfold Taxi thinks it is difficult to say anything about the case.

He points out that it is also not 100 per cent certain that it is a car from their company that has taken the aforementioned trip.

– It is impossible to comment without knowing who this is, says Horn, who has also not received any inquiries from either the police or any of the drivers regarding this matter.