UPDATE: No charges were filed against Frederick Dencer in the alleged kidnapping, a spokeswoman for the District Attorney’s Office said Wednesday. 
 
 An Encino man who drives for the ride-sharing company Uber was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping a woman with the intention of sexually assaulting her, police said Tuesday. 
 
 Frederick Dencer, 32, was booked Monday after officers found him in a Van Nuys motel room, according to an LAPD news release. He is accused of taking an intoxicated 26-year-old woman to the location after picking her up Sunday night at a West Hollywood nightclub. 
 
 The woman called 911 from a Panorama City convenience store after waking up next to the man, who was shirtless, and leaving the motel, the release said. She was not injured. 
 
 Although Dencer had at least one Uber fare on Sunday night, the woman did not use the mobile app to request a ride at Greystone Manor, located at 643 La Cienega Blvd., police said. 
 
 Investigators believe Dencer had been hanging out at the club after another fare and was solicited by a valet to take the victim home, the release said. 
 
 “Had this been an official Uber assignment, Dencer would have received the victim’s home address with the fare, but in this case [she] was too drunk to tell him,” the LAPD statement said. 
 
 The suspect apparently “took advantage of the situation and drove her to a cheap motel, which he had visited before, and carried her into the room,” said Lt. Paul Vernon of the Los Angeles Police Department. “He slept right in the room. When she awoke, he let her leave, though he asked her to stay, according to the victim.” 
 
 The woman, whose name has not been released, called police from a 7-Eleven at 6 a.m. She told police that she did not know the suspect, nor did she remember how she had arrived at the motel. 
 
 After interviewing the woman, officers determined that she had been bar-hopping the night before, police said. She directed the officers to the Panorama Motel, where they found Dencer in the room he had checked into. 
 
 He was questioned, but “his story didn’t make any sense,” Vernon said. 
 
 The officers then watched surveillance video that showed the victim being carried into the motel, according to the Police Department. 
 
 Based on the circumstances and the video, Dencer was booked for kidnap for the purpose of sexual assault, authorities said. His bail was set at $1 million. 
 
 “It looks like he made a rash decision to take advantage of a vulnerable woman, and he’s not the first man to try that,” Vernon said. “The irony is, the victim was trying to be responsible by calling for a ride, but she unwittingly put herself in another vulnerable situation. 
 
 “Hopefully others will learn from this, and thankfully she was not assaulted or injured.” 
 
 In a later interview, Vernon said the woman had not used Uber to summon a car to the nightclub. 
 
 “Uber became aware this afternoon of a serious incident in Los Angeles,” the ride-sharing company said in a statement Tuesday. “The facts are unknown at this stage and it’s certainly unclear that this is an Uber-related incident, as the driver in question was not logged in, connected to or operating on the platform at the time. 
 
 “We have reached out to authorities and will work with them to help uncover the facts,” the statement continued. “It is also our policy to immediately suspend a driver’s account following any serious allegations, which we have done. Nothing is more important to Uber than the safety of our riders.” 
 
 A police investigation into the incident is ongoing. 
 
 Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Nicole Kittle of the LAPD’s Mission Sex Unit at 818-838-9975. ||||| Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 2:48 PM 
 
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 .... took advantage of the situation, and drove her to a cheap motel, which he had visited before, and carried her into the room. He slept the night in the room, and when she awoke, he let her leave, though he asked her to stay, according to the victim. 
 
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 Dencer answered questions but his story didn't make sense. Once the officers watched video from the motel, they realized the victim was carried into the motel, and that didn't jive with Dencer's several stories. 
 
 
 
 ... It looks like he made a rash decision to take advantage of a vulnerable woman, and he's not the first man to try that. The irony is, the victim was trying to be responsible by calling for a ride, but she unwittingly put herself in another vulnerable situation. Hopefully, others will learn from this, and thankfully she was not assaulted or injured. 
 
 By her description he fondled her over her clothes and suggested he wanted to have sex, but he didn't force it. 
 
 When you think of a man who takes a very drunk woman into a car, she can't express where she lives, he continues to drive around and drives her miles away from her home, from his home, to a very cheap motel frequented by prostitutes and drug users, checks in, and carries her into the room, which we see on video, this leads to the intent of what he wanted to do. 
 
 You're not helping yourself if your going to party to the extent where you can't express where you live. The fare was solicited by a valet there who was trying to help this woman because she was so drunk and wanted to go home. He [the suspect] never reported the fare to his company. 
 
 Uber became aware this afternoon of a serious incident in Los Angeles. The facts are unknown at this stage and it's certainly unclear that this is an Uber-related incident, as the driver in question was not logged in, connected to or operating on the platform at the time. We have reached out to authorities and will work with them to help uncover the facts. It is also our policy to immediately suspend a driver's account following any serious allegations, which we have done. Nothing is more important to Uber than the safety of our riders. 
 
 A 26-year-old female clubgoer was allegedly kidnapped by an Uber driver and taken to a motel in Panorama City, police said today.The driver, identified as 32-year-old Frederick Dencer of Encino, was booked on suspicion of kidnapping for the purpose of sexual assault. However, cops did not allege that a sexual assault actually took place.The story starts outside Greystone Manor in West Hollywood early yesterday, according ton an LAPD statement:The victim was drunk, and a nightclub worker asked the driver to take her home, police said.As such, the ride was off-the-books - there was no record of it, as would normally be the case with Uber's app, according to cops. Lt. Paul Vernon says the driver allegedly ...The woman woke up next to the shirtless stranger, left ("He let her leave," Vernon said), and went to a Panorama City 7-Eleven, where she called police at 6 a.m. yesterday, the LAPD stated.Cops say she was able to point out the motel in question, the Panorama Motel , where officers say they found the suspect still there.The woman's phone was dead, so it was difficult to determine if she had called Uber to get to the Manor that night, police said. Copsshe did take an Uber ride at one point during a night club-hopping.Vernon says:We called to determine more about any alleged sexual contact but were unable to get through. We also reached out to Uber for its response but no one got back to us.Dencer was being held in lieu of $1 million bail.Earlier this year an Uber driver in Washington, D.C. was accused of raping a 20-year-old customer, but charges were not filed and he was released.In February a 26-year-old woman said she was briefly kidnapped by an Uber driver , also in Washington, D.C.Vernon told us a sexual assault didn't take place, but that the victim told police this:But cops believe the suspect intended to do more. Vernon:Vernon warned club-goers that even if they're trying to be responsible by using a ride-share app, they need to be conscious:The driver, Vernon said, ultimately fell asleep in the motel room.Uber released this statement: Send feedback and tips to the author. Follow Dennis Romero on Twitter at @dennisjromero . Follow LA Weekly News on Twitter at @laweeklynews ||||| These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites.
– Words Uber would likely rather not hear in the same sentence: its name, and "kidnapping." One of the ride-sharing service's California drivers was arrested Monday on suspicion of kidnapping an intoxicated woman he was supposed to be driving home, KTLA reports. The 26-year-old woman was bar-hopping in West Hollywood Sunday night, and police say that at her last stop, the Greystone Manor nightclub, a valet asked driver Frederick Dencer, 32, to drive her home. Police point out that it wasn't an "official Uber assignment" and the woman didn't use the Uber app. She was also apparently too drunk to give him her address; police say Dencer "took advantage of the situation" and allegedly drove her to a motel, the Los Angeles Times reports. The woman woke up at 6am Monday next to a shirtless Dencer, who put his hand on her and wanted to have sex, police say. LA Weekly adds that the woman says he "fondled her over her clothes." But he let her leave, and she called police from a nearby 7-Eleven. She told them she did not remember how she had gotten to the motel. Surveillance footage showed she had been practically unable to walk and that Dencer carried her into the room. In its official response, Uber says it's "certainly unclear that this is an Uber-related incident," but that passenger safety is its top priority and Dencer has been suspended. He faces a charge of kidnapping for the purpose of sexual assault, and his bail was set at $1 million. (Earlier this year, an Uber driver was sued for hitting and killing a 6-year-old.)