Pax BROKE INTO MY APARTMENT!!!
So I take the passenger and her daughter to bar, they were a little rude but nothing out of the ordinary. I proceeded to pick up about six other passengers. Someone finds a phone in the back seat. I take the phone, and I'm not sure who left it in the car. Im thinking they will contact me through the app. I go home to have dinner and leave the phone on the table. Still waiting for them to contact me. I decided to go back out to drive as it's Friday night and l'm trying to make some extra money. I come back home and the police are shining flashlights in through the gate asking me to let them in. I live in a commercial building with a twenty foot fence and barbed wire so it's almost impossible to gain access without a gate code. I let them in and ask what's going on and they tell me that they have a suspect upstairs and I freaked out because my boyfriend and l are the only tenets in the building. So I walk them upstairs and let them in and they direct me to my apartment. I asked them what's going on?? And they respond they received a call about a stolen property. So l explain to them that I drive for Lyft and someone had left their phone in my vehicle. I didn't know who left it and I was waiting for them to reach out to me. I let them into my apartment and to my surprise my apartment was RANSACKED! This lady had destroyed my property emptied the contents of my purse and moved things around. I have a second phone that she completely smashed. The police told me that she had entered to retrieve her property!! I told them I want to press charges against her. They were defending her saying that she's not a stranger to me and she has no outstanding warrants. I replied that she is in fac. stranger, I don't know this woman, I had no intent of taking her phone, and I was waiting for them to for them to reach out on the app. THIS IS INSANE! I feel so violated and honestly don't want to drive for Lyft anymore. Any ideas on what to do? Mind you this all happend about two hours after her phone went missing, so instead of contacting me on the app she decided to break into my apartment and file a police report against me. I contacted my lawyer and bagged all of the evidence including my smashed phone which I'm sure has her finger prints..
UPDATE: I had the police come back to my house this morning to file my own separate report for the break in. They verified that they are working on the case and will send out a detective. They said they have me classified as the victim.
I sent photos of the damage she had cause to the property to the property. My landlord said she would testify for me.
Also apparently she called the business below me to try and get in. I spoke to the woman who owns the business downstairs and she told me she did not let her in and said she was in the middle of hosting an event when this all happened. She said she would testify for me in court.
I spoke to a local news station and they are going to interview me, reach out to Lyft and the police.
ANOTHER UPDATE: LYFT CALLED ME! They offered to pay for therapy and some of my BILLS!!!