Marine pleads no contest in choking Uber driver during trip
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A Marine has neither admitted nor denied choking an Uber driver on Interstate 95 in Chesterfield, Virginia, while the car was traveling at 65 mph.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports 23-years-old Maxwell Sweeney of Mansfield, Massachusetts, pleaded no contest Thursday to unlawful wounding. He was initially charged with injuring a person through strangulation.
Sweeney was with a Marine attachment at Fort Lee when he and another serviceman got into Rene Sanchez Espinozo's car. While traveling on the highway, Sweeney and the driver got into a dispute because the passengers wanted to change their destination.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Chesterfield County prosecutor Juan Vega says Sweeney was drunk and choked Espinozo before running into the woods. Vega says Espinozo now has symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.
The judge withheld a finding of guilt until sentencing Dec. 28.