🚨NO WHITE SUPREMACISTS INVOLVED🚨
Like I've said before, how many Jeffrey Dahmer's are out there across America that we don't know about because they haven't been caught who actually feel confident nothing would happen because he targets Commie Democrat-run states and cities that have Commie Democrat District Attorneys who imposed their soft on crime no bail no jail laws that benefit the criminals? The monster was arrested in Nevada where he was with his wife and children. Wow. (emphasis mine)
KPTV FOX 12 Oregon published August 2, 2023: Klamath Falls kidnapping case: Suspect allegedly built cell in his home garage to hold victim. A Klamath Falls man is in custody after a woman escaped from a makeshift cinder block cell in his garage, the FBI of Portland says.
KOIN 6 published August 2, 2023: Neighbors say accused kidnapper in FBI case was ‘aggressive’, ‘a con artist’. Since news broke that a man living in Klamath Falls had allegedly kidnapped a woman and kept her in a cinderblock cell in his basement, his former neighbors and roommates in Vancouver have started reflecting on their time living near him.
KOIN6 News, Portland, OR local
written by Joelle Jones, Aimee Plante
Wednesday August 2, 2023
PORTLAND, Oregon – Since news broke that a man living in Klamath Falls had allegedly kidnapped a woman and kept her in a cinderblock cell in his basement, his former neighbors and roommates in Vancouver have started reflecting on their time living near him.
From harassment orders to threats, neighbors say living next to 29-year-old Negasi Zuberi was a nightmare until he was evicted in May. Then, nearly three months later, the FBI revealed their investigation into Zuberi’s possible criminal past.
Mark, a man who previously lived next door to Zuberi, said he was surprised to see FBI agents at his home Tuesday morning, but wasn’t shocked once he found out who they were investigating.
“I wasn’t surprised, personally. I knew something was gonna go down,” Mark said. “There was always something left to right going on that didn’t feel right.”
The investigation has prompted Mark to replay moments he witnessed during Zuberi’s time in Vancouver – like the time he saw a young woman in shorts locked out of the home in 30-degree weather.
“I’m like, ‘Can take you to a shelter. Do you want me to call the cops?’ She was like, ‘No, don’t call the cops’ – like freaked out,” Mark said. “And I’m like, OK, is there something going on inside the house that we know about?’ She’s like, ‘I can’t tell you guys anything that’s happened.’ Almost like her life was threatened if she did speak.”
Like many others who crossed paths with Zuberi, Mark knew the man by a different name. He has also been known by the aliases Sakima, Justin Hyche and Justin Kouassi.
But regardless of Zuberi’s identity, Mark said he was trouble from the moment he moved into their neighborhood.
Neighbors tell KOIN 6 they were forced to contact authorities several times after a string of incidents. Including aggressive behavior. Mark says he and his roommate even began recording Zuberi to show the landlord.
“When we started going against his way of life, he started getting aggressive. You know, like showing a gun,” Mark said. “He started going on our property and cussing us out.”
Mark said certain details in the case also made sense in hindsight. For instance, investigators say Zuberi had posed as an undercover cop to get the woman into his car in Seattle before she eventually escaped from his basement a day later.
“For him, it was more like, you know, ‘I’m the man, I’m taking charge.’ And so, when I found out about even the whole pretending to be a cop, I’m like, that’s not surprising from him. You know? Because he’s a con artist,” Mark said.
Another resident filed a temporary anti-harassment order against Zuberi for allegedly sending threatening text messages against him and his family. Court recordings show Zuberi contesting the order in court.
“It’s an unlawful protective order because you haven’t proved harassment,” Zuberi said in the recording. “You’re claiming harassment, but where’s the harassment?”
According to the FBI, Zuberi lived in 10 states over the past 10 years and authorities believe there could be additional victims. The investigation has expanded to multiple states including Washington; Oregon; Colorado; Utah; Florida; New York; New Jersey; Alabama and Nevada.
Officials are now looking for potential victims, and say Zuberi has already been linked to at least four sexual assaults in four other states.
Mark said he hopes no one was harmed in the time that Zuberi spent living in his neighborhood.
“I hope nothing happened like in that house, like as in anyone living there, or like if he held anyone captive,” he said.
KOIN 6 published August 2, 2023: Ex-roommates share details of FBI kidnapping suspect's previous home in Clark County, WA. After the FBI announced the arrest of an accused sex offender living in Klamath Falls who they say kidnapped a woman he kept in a cinderblock cell, KOIN 6 is looking into his history in his previous Clark County home.
KOIN 6 published August 3, 2023: FBI releases timeline of accused kidnapper Negasi Zuberi’s past residences. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released a timeline of where accused kidnapper Negasi Zuberi has lived as authorities search for additional victims of his after a woman escaped from a cinderblock cell in the garage of his Klamath Falls home in July.
KOIN6 News, Portland, OR local
written by Michaela Bourgeois, Brandon Thompson
Thursday August 3, 2023
PORTLAND, Oregon – The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released a timeline of where accused kidnapper Negasi Zuberi has lived as authorities search for additional victims of his after a woman escaped from a cinderblock cell in the garage of his Klamath Falls home in July.
Authorities believe 29-year-old Zuberi — who also went by the names Sakima, Justin Hyche and Justin Kouassi — is not originally from Oregon and only lived in the state for a few months.
According to the FBI, he lived in 10 states over the past 10 years and authorities believe there could be additional victims. The investigation has expanded to multiple states including Washington; Oregon; Colorado; Utah; Florida; New York; New Jersey; Alabama and Nevada. Zuberi is also linked to at least four sexual assaults in four states, according to authorities.
On Thursday, the FBI released a timeline of where they believe Zuberi has previously resided, with some overlapping dates.
Timeline of Zuberi’s residences
Denver, CO March 2022-May 2023
Portland, OR Sept. 2022
Vancouver, WA Aug. 2022
Las Vegas, NV July 2019 – June 2021
Chicago, IL Jan. 2019 – Dec. 2019
Bronx, NY July 2018 – June 2019
Ecorse, MI April 2017 – Sept. 2017
Orlando, FL July 2014 – May 2015
Washington County, UT Frequented since roughly 2016
New Jersey Frequented (unspecified dates)
Tuscaloosa, AL June 2014, June 2018 – April 2020
Northport, AL April 2014-June 2018
Antioch, CA Nov. 2019 – Feb. 2021
Vacaville, CA Nov. 2017 – Feb. 2019
Oakland, CA Oct. 2012 – March 2018
Azusa, CA March 2016 – June 2016
Granada Hills, CA Feb. 2016 – July 2016
Zuberi’s former roommates, James Dunn and Prentice Gerald, say they knew him as Sakima when they lived in a house near Prairie High School in Clark County, Washington months ago. They all shared the house with Zuberi’s girlfriend and their two young boys.
They say Zuberi told them he was the owner and landlord, and even collected their rents. Court records show the real owner of the house worked to evict Zuberi in April – and one neighbor even filed a restraining order against him.
“The cops were always showing up,” Dunn said. “There was constantly drama happening in and out of the house.”
As reported by the Associated Press, the Klamath Falls rental home where Zuberi allegedly took the woman, is owned by the city’s mayor, Carol Westfall, and her husband Kevin. According to the Associated Press, after Zuberi’s arrest, the couple evicted him.
“We are shocked and dismayed by what has occurred,” the Westfalls said. “We applaud the actions of the woman who helped capture this person and prevent him from committing further atrocities.”
During that time, there was a documented call to animal control in which two pitbulls from Zuberi’s house were running in the cul-de-sac. Court records show that officers took down the name Sakima Stringer and a phone number.
KOIN 6 called the phone number and found out that Sakima Stringer is, in fact, a real person.
“This is mind boggling on many different levels, first the crimes, then the person using my information, my name and it’s you know…I’m baffled right now,” Stringer said.
Stringer has ties to Portland and Vancouver too. He admits there’s a resemblance.
“There’s some similarities. I’m not saying he’s my cousin or anything, but there’s some similarities, you know, when I was younger which is, it makes it even more trippy,” he said.
Stringer contacted the FBI hoping to avoid getting any more mixed up in the case. He’s also rethinking how public some of his information is.
“I don’t know how that person got my information, Stringer said. “I run a business so some information is public, but it makes me want to never use social media again.”
During a press conference on Wednesday, the FBI said Zuberi traveled from his Klamath Falls home to Seattle on July 15, 2023, where he approached a woman around midnight near Aurora Avenue and solicited prostitution, according to court documents.
Zuberi claimed to be a police officer and showed the victim a badge saying he needed to take her into custody, according to the documents, adding that he then pointed a taser at the victim before putting her in handcuffs and leg irons and putting her in the back of his car.
The woman said once they arrived at the Klamath Falls home, he put her into a makeshift cell in the garage he made out of cinder blocks and a metal door installed in reverse so it could not be opened from the inside, officials said.
According to authorities, the woman was locked in the cell for a few hours and after Zuberi left, she escaped by punching and banging on the door several times to break the welds.
Once outside the cell, the woman said she found Zuberi’s car and when she opened it, she found a handgun, which she took before fleeing the house and flagging down a motorist who called 911, court documents said.
The next day, Zuberi was found in Reno, Nevada in a Walmart parking lot holding one of his children in the front seat of his car while talking to his wife, according to law enforcement.
Court documents say that authorities contacted him, and he refused to leave the vehicle and cut himself with a sharp object causing him to bleed heavily. The documents also said he tried to destroy his phone. The child was unharmed.
After a 45-minute standoff with authorities, Zuberi was taken into custody, officials said. Zuberi appeared in front of a federal judge on July 26 and will be taken back to Oregon.
“If she didn’t do what she did, we wouldn’t be here today and Mr. Zubari would not be in custody,” Klamath Falls Police Captain Rob Reyolds said during a press conference. “I want to personally thank her for her bravery and what she did to get through that ordeal.”
During the press conference, FBI Assistant Special Agent in charge Stephanie Shark said, “the victim is strong and courageous and right now she is physically okay, and we are working with her through our victim services department to make sure she has whatever resources she needs to continue to be resilient.”
Shark added that this case points to the suspect’s “ongoing and escalating pattern of violence targeting women in multiple states throughout the country.”
The FBI encourages those who believe they are victims to contact them.
“I want to thank the brave women who fought for their lives to get us where we are today. Now it is our turn to take their burden and fight for them and any other victims out there and seek justice,” Shark said.
Authorities say Zubari has been charged with a federal criminal complaint for one count of interstate kidnapping, which carries a max sentence of up to life in prison. Transporting an individual across state lines with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity is punishable by up to 10 years in federal prison.
Officials anticipate Zuberi will appear in federal court in Medford in the coming weeks.
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