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Boston Uber driver charged with rape

Craig F. Walker / The Boston Globe, File

An Uber driver from Boston was arraigned on three counts of rape Tuesday in Newton District Court for allegedly assaulting a female passenger last September, the Middlesex district attorney’s office announced.

Luis Baez, 34, was driving under the name of Pedro Valentin in September when he picked up a woman in Boston and allegedly assaulted her, prosecutors said in a statement Tuesday night.

Baez was ordered held on $2,500 cash bail, and ordered to stay away from the victim and the Boston College campus, prosecutors said.

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