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No police report from DU professor who alleges Uber driver locked her in car

Police say they haven't heard from the woman who says an Uber driver wanted to take her to a hotel.
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In this Photo Illustration, a phone displays the Uber ride-hailing app on September 22, 2017 in London, England.

The case of the DU law professor versus her alleged Uber kidnapper has yet to be sorted out.

Denver Police tell 9NEWS they still haven't received an official complaint from law professor Nancy Leong, whose Twitter account of what sounds like a kidnapping went viral Tuesday.

A series of tweets by law professor Nancy Leong describe being trapped by an Uber driver, who was supposed to be driving her to the airport.

She says her driver threatened to take her to a hotel, not to the airport where she was going, and said he wouldn't let her out of the car.

“He said he was going to ‘take me to a hotel’ and got off the highway. We got to a stop light. I started yelling ‘let me out of the f---ing car’ and he wouldn’t unlock the doors,”Leong wrote on Twitter. “I started pounding on the windows until some construction workers looked over.”

Leong tweeted more Wednesday, knocking down speculation that she'd been in an "Uber Pool," which means the driver would make multiple stops to pick up other people.

Uber confirmed to 9NEWS that hers was not a shared ride, and said the driver is still banned from their app while they investigate.

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