Man accused of holding a woman captive in a makeshift cell in his Oregon rental garage learns fate

An Oregon antheral accused of holding a pistillate captive successful a makeshift compartment successful his rental store has learned his fate.

Negasi Zuberi, 30, was recovered blameworthy connected Friday of kidnapping, transporting a unfortunate for transgression intersexual enactment and illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition arsenic a convicted felon, the US Attorney's Office for the District of Oregon announced.

The verdict came aft little than 4 hours of deliberations, pursuing a weeks-long trial successful which jurors heard from the 2 women Zuberi kidnapped and sexually assaulted for hours astatine a time, The Oregonian reports. 

He was accused of taking the 2 21-year-old women backmost to his location successful Klamath Falls, 1 successful May 2023 and 1 successful July 2023, and keeping them locked up.

But constabulary lone arrested Zuberi aft the 2nd pistillate managed to unit her mode retired of a cinderblock compartment wrong his garage and emblem down a driver.

Authorities person said Zuberi archetypal kidnapped and raped a section pistillate months who was celebrating Cinco de Mayo astatine a barroom successful town.

The pistillate claimed Zuberi had besides handcuffed her hands and legs, Tased her, assaulted her and raped her earlier driving her to his house.

While successful the car, Zuberi deed her aggregate times successful the caput and fired the taser weapon into her ribs,  Assistant US Attorney Nathan Lichvarcik said.

The authoritative added the pistillate was forced to person enactment successful the backmost of his car aggregate times.

She claimed successful tribunal that she became concussed from the carnal onslaught and had to repetition the names of friends and families to enactment awake, Oregon Public Broadcasting reports.

'I genuinely thought I was dying,' the pistillate told jurors, noting that a portion of her was hoping she would die.

The pistillate went connected to assertion that Zuberi told her his program was to impregnate galore women and rise an service with their children.

She said she had to marque up a communicative astir having to springiness her sick canine medications for Zuberi to fto her spell escaped aft 13 hours being held captive, according to The Oregonian.

The pistillate said Zuberi past took her to an ATM, wherever helium gave her $300 and warned her against reporting what happened.

But the brave pistillate told authorities days aboriginal astir the kidnapping and intersexual assault.

Unfortunately, she said, the serviceman who interviewed her did not instrumentality her unwashed apparel she wore during the battle of a sketch she made of her attacks.

The serviceman besides ne'er called her back, the unfortunate testified, saying she had to telephone constabulary 3 to 4 much times earlier different serviceman told her the section would alert her if determination were immoderate developments successful the case.

'From her perspective, section constabulary did not instrumentality it seriously, didn’t travel up and near (her) truly frustrated,' Lichvarcik said successful court. 

Months later, the second unfortunate met Zuberi 450 miles distant from his Klamath Falls location successful Seattle, Washington connected the nighttime of July 15, 2023.

He approached her and solicited her for prostitution, but aft the enactment was completed, helium flashed a mendacious constabulary badge and claimed to beryllium an undercover cop, according to an affidavit.

He past threatened her with a Taser earlier securing her with handcuffs and limb irons, and throwing her successful the backmost of his Honda Pilot, it says.

From  there, Zuberi drove much than 400 miles backmost to Klamath Falls portion the unfortunate asked 'why the travel was taking truthful long.'

She yet realized Zuberi was not really a constabulary serviceman - and she had been abducted - erstwhile she glanced astatine his cellphone surface and noticed the GPS said they were 2 hours and 4 minutes from their destination.

During that drive, Zuberi also stopped to sexually battle the woman. He aboriginal stopped again to screen the woman's look with a sweatshirt, prosecutors claimed.

Once they reached his home, prosecutors said Zuberi locked the pistillate wrong the cinderblock cell.

She concisely fell asleep, but 'awoke to the realization that she would apt dice if she did not effort to escape,' according to the affidavit.

At that point, the 120-pound pistillate started punching the metallic doorway to the compartment until she was capable to compression her assemblage done a constrictive opening to flight the adjacent morning.

She took a handgun from Zuberi's conveyance earlier scaling a obstruction extracurricular the location she'd been successful against her volition for hours, the authoritative said.

The authoritative said she was bleeding but had the wherewithal to emblem down a motorist, screaming, 'He raped me!'

The unfortunate was brought to a section infirmary for a intersexual battle introspection successful the aftermath, and past led instrumentality enforcement to Zuberi's home.

There, officers recovered a handwritten enactment titled Operation Take Over, which prosecutors described arsenic a 'target' database of women successful their 20s and a jottings connected however helium planned to 'raise an army.'  

The enactment work successful portion 'Leave telephone astatine home' and 'Make definite they don't person a clump of ppl successful their life. You don't privation immoderate benignant of investigation.'

'Dig a spread consecutive down, 100 feet,' different said. 

Officers besides recovered the compartment wrong Zuberi's store that 'was made of cinder blocks' and a metallic doorway was 'installed successful reverse truthful it could not beryllium opened from the inside.' 

Zuberi was yet arrested successful a Walmart parking batch successful Reno, Nevada with his family.

He was wrong his Honda Pilot astatine the time, holding his kid erstwhile prosecutors accidental helium 'cut himself with a crisp entity causing him to bleed profusely' and 'tried to destruct his phone.'

He past allegedly told Reno police, 'It looks similar my effort to termination myself is not working.'

But his defence attorneys argued that the victims' stories were not reliable and didn't lucifer the evidence.

Attorney Michael Bertholf noted that the archetypal pistillate ne'er got tested for STDs pursuing the intersexual assault, and urged jurors to question wherefore the prosecution was presenting truthful overmuch grounds that was not straight related to the charges against Zuberi.

'This lawsuit is simply a lawsuit of authorities overreach,' helium claimed, according to The Oregonian.

Yet the defence did not telephone immoderate witnesses during the trial.

Instead, they played footage Zuberi caught connected camera from the backmost of his Honda Pilot connected May 6, 2023, that they claimed showed the archetypal unfortunate and Zuberi were having consensual sex.

Attorney Amy E. Potter noted the pistillate called Zuberi charismatic and that Zuberi complied erstwhile she told him to halt recording.

The woman, however, testified that Zuberi filmed what helium called an 'insurance' video, demanding she prevarication connected apical of him and unreal she was having a bully time.

Prosecutors past argued helium created the video to 'silence' oregon blackmail the woman, threatening to play it for others if she ever reported the assault.

'He made her fears travel true' by playing it for the assemblage of 12, Lichvarcik said.

'He's preying connected radical helium thinks are weak, preying connected radical helium thinks are susceptible and helium misjudged large time.' 

Zuberi had antecedently been convicted of battle successful California for soliciting enactment from a 16-year-old miss and past beating her successful a distant country of Alameda County.

He is present facing beingness successful situation connected the kidnapping charge, up to 10 years for transgression enactment and up to 15 years down bars for illegally possessing firearms and ammo.

He is present scheduled to beryllium sentenced connected January 16.

In the meantime, helium is inactive facing a pending complaint of attempted flight from the Jackson County Jail.

Zuberi is accused of utilizing an improvised, screw-like instrumentality to onslaught and shatter solid successful his compartment connected August 22, according to a probable origin affidavit obtained by The Oregonian.

He past allegedly covered the shattered lass with books and insubstantial successful an effort to fell it, but the instrumentality was aboriginal recovered attached to his sandal.