Newly-obtained arrest documents show that two men previously accused separately in Miami rideshare rape cases are now accused of working together to victimize women who thought they were being taken home by Uber after nights out.
The new revelations come as authorities added additional sexual battery and kidnapping charges for Danny Maurad-Avecillas, 49, of southwest Miami-Dade, who Miami police first arrested back in February. Police accused him of picking up a tourist from California who believed she was drugged and sexually assaulted after waking up injured in a Little Havana hotel in January.
Police said two more women would later come forward.
The two new cases against Maurad-Avecillas, according to police reports filed on Sunday, tie him to a previously-arrested rideshare rape suspect, Yadir Gongora.
Gongora, 40, of Hialeah, was first arrested in October 2023 after police said he posed as an Uber driver, picked up two women from a Wynwood nightclub and sexually battered one of them on South Beach. He pleaded guilty to robbery by sudden snatching in the case and received two years probation and withheld adjudication in April.
