Rabat, Jan. 29 -- The Dubai criminal court has charged a Moroccan man with "stealing a taxi, crashing it into a villa and then assaulting two police officers," the Emirati news outlet the National reported Tuesday.

The incident goes back to the early hours of September 13 last year when the 24-year-old Moroccan suspect called a taxi to take him to Mirdif area in Dubai after spending the evening drinking.

When the suspect arrived to his destination, he got out of the taxi to bring money to pay the Pakistani taxi driver, according to court hearing.

"I dropped him off and he asked me to wait for him so he could get money to pay me," the taxi driver told the hearing.

After waiting for long, the Pakistani driver went looking for the Morocc...