Two American college students have been jailed in Denmark over an alleged Uber dispute while traveling for spring break.
Owen Ray, 19, and an unnamed friend, both U.S. citizens, were traveling when the pair were detained at Copenhagen Airport on April 1, according to Ray’s family. Ray, a student at Miami University in Ohio, had been studying abroad and was visiting Denmark while on spring break.
“Owen Ray and a friend were the victims of an unprovoked verbal and physical assault by an Uber driver in Denmark,” a spokesperson for Ray’s family told Fox News Digital. “They did nothing to instigate the attack.”
Miami University in Ohio did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
On March 31, Ray and his friend were in an Uber when Ray reportedly entered the wrong address in the Uber app and asked the driver if he and his friend could exit the vehicle, his mother, Sara Buchen-Ray, told FOX 32 Chicago.
The situation quickly escalated, with the Uber driver threatening to call the police and kicking Ray in the groin, according to Buchen-Ray. Ray reportedly pushed the Uber driver to the ground, and the pair escaped.
