Woman accused of holding Uber driver at gunpoint

PALM COAST, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - An Uber driver who claims she was held at gunpoint while driving a passenger all around town for hours was the scariest ride of her life.

"I'm thinking, I'm not gonna get to see my kids again. That's what I was thinking," said the driver and mother of seven.

She said she was driving for Uber Wednesday afternoon when she got a call to pick up Betty Jo Halter. She went to a storage place where Halter was waiting. A police report says Halter put a bunch of boxes and bags in the car, her service dog and porcelain doll, then got in the front seat.

"She peed all over my seats and ruined my front carpet," she said of the dog.

That's when the driver said Halter showed her a gun.

"She sat down on the seat, opened her pocket book, lifted it enough just to see it without taking it all the way out, and she pointed it with her hand towards me."

They drove around town, with Halter directing the woman to Eric Place in Palm Coast.   Halter got out of the car, and that's when the driver made a move, throwing Halters' stuff out of the car and letting the dog out.  She took off and called 911.

"I just had somebody hold me hostage in my car for like two-and-a-half hours with a gun," she told a 911 operator. 

Deputies arrested Halter at the same home on Eric Place.