article_snippet.sent: Duncan Burton, 57, was released in November 2012 after 14-years behind bars but was allowed to work for Uber despite city controls prohibiting drug felons driving cabs.
article_snippet.sent: Duncan Burton was taken into custody on Wednesday on one count of sexual assault and if convicted will face a maximum sentence of 20 years.
article_snippet.sent: Uber spokeswoman, Debbee Hancock said on Monday that Duncan Burton had passed all the firms background checks before all the firms allowed Duncan Burton to work under all the firms name.
article_snippet.sent: That means because Duncan Burton was sentence 14-years ago, Duncan Burton drug offense did not register or raise a red flag.
article_snippet.sent: Indeed, Duncan Burton served 14 years of an 18 year sentence for trying to distribute five kilos or more of cocaine according to the US Bureau of Prisons.
article_snippet.sent: That information is readily available online by typing in Duncan Burton name.
article_snippet.sent: Duncan Burton was convicted in Houston and served time in Louisana and Georgia before Duncan Burton 2012 release which was commuted because of good behavior.
highlights_snippet.sent: Duncan Burton, 57,  was charged last week with rape in Houston, Texas .
  Released from jail in 2012 after serving 14-years of an 18-year sentence .