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

An Oregon man accused of holding a female captive successful a makeshift compartment successful his rental car shed has learned his fate.

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

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

He was accused of taking nan 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 only arrested Zuberi aft nan 2nd female managed to unit her measurement retired of a cinderblock compartment wrong his garage and emblem down a driver.

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

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

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

The charismatic added nan female was forced to person activity successful nan backmost of his car aggregate times.

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

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

The female went connected to declare that Zuberi told her his scheme was to impregnate galore women and raise an service pinch their children.

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

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

But nan brave female told authorities days later astir nan kidnapping and intersexual assault.

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

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

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

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

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

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

From  there, Zuberi drove much than 400 miles backmost to Klamath Falls while nan unfortunate asked 'why nan 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 nan GPS said they were 2 hours and 4 minutes from their destination.

During that drive, Zuberi also stopped to sexually battle nan woman. He later stopped again to screen nan woman's look pinch a sweatshirt, prosecutors claimed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The statement publication successful portion 'Leave telephone astatine home' and 'Make judge they don't person a bunch of ppl successful their life. You don't want immoderate type of investigation.'

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

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

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

He was wrong his Honda Pilot astatine nan time, holding his kid erstwhile prosecutors opportunity he 'cut himself pinch a crisp entity causing him to bleed profusely' and 'tried to destruct his phone.'

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

But his defense attorneys based on that nan victims' stories were not reliable and didn't lucifer nan evidence.

Attorney Michael Bertholf noted that nan first female ne'er sewage tested for STDs pursuing nan intersexual assault, and urged jurors to mobility why nan prosecution was presenting truthful overmuch grounds that was not straight related to nan charges against Zuberi.

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

Yet nan defense did not telephone immoderate witnesses during nan trial.

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

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

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

Prosecutors past based on he created nan video to 'silence' aliases blackmail nan woman, threatening to play it for others if she ever reported nan assault.

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

'He's preying connected group he thinks are weak, preying connected group he thinks are susceptible and he misjudged large time.' 

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

He is now facing life successful situation connected nan kidnapping charge, up to 10 years for criminal activity and up to 15 years down bars for illegally possessing firearms and ammo.

He is now scheduled to beryllium sentenced connected January 16.

In nan meantime, he is still facing a pending complaint of attempted flight from nan 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 nan shattered lass pinch books and insubstantial successful an effort to hide it, but nan instrumentality was later recovered attached to his sandal.