Two American college students on spring break have been detained since April 1 in Copenhagen over an alleged dispute with an Uber driver. Sara Buchen-Ray, mother of Miami University of Ohio student Owen Ray, 19, told Fox 32 on Sunday that her son and his friend realized they had entered the wrong address for their destination in the Uber on March 31, but when they told the driver, he refused to change course. “The Uber driver said they were going to call the police,” Buchen-Ray said. “My son said, ‘Call the police, we’ve done nothing wrong.’ He said that five or six times… At that point, the Uber driver got angry, kicked in between the legs, he fell down to the ground. They were able to get away.” When they got to the airport the next morning for their flight home, they were “arrested at the gate,” Buchen-Ray said. The pair were assigned a government-appointed attorney in Denmark, where they can legally be detained until the end of the month.
