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Updated at 4:33 p.m., Sunday, July 1, 2007

Cabbie charged with trying to run over customer

By Rod Ohira
Advertiser Staff Writer

A cab driver was charged today for allegedly driving his vehicle at a man and then attempting to run him over numerous times.

Guillermo Fernandez, 51, is accused of second-degree attempted murder and is being held in lieu of $50,000 bail.

Fernandez was involved in a verbal argument with a customer, 29, whom he took to an Ala Moana-area parking lot near Keawe Street Friday at 8:40 a.m., police said.

Fernandez allegedly drove his cab at the man as he walked away and tried to run him over numerous times, witnesses told police.