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Friday 4 august 2023

A man accused of locking a woman in a homemade cell had a

handwritten plan and sketch, FBI says

By Andrew Selsky and way, according to court
Gene Johnson documents.
Associated Press After the woman escaped,
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — He Zuberi fled but was arrested
called it “Operation Take by state police in Reno, Ne-
Over,” with a list that includ- vada, the next afternoon,
ed a chilling reminder to go the FBI said.
after women who wouldn’t Zuberi is married and has
be missed to avoid “any a child, but the FBI did not
kind of an investigation,” say whether they were liv-
according to the FBI. ing in the Klamath Falls
Accompanying the bullet- home and declined to an-
point notes was a sketch of swer questions about them.
an apparent dungeon, to Zuberi did not follow item
be built with cinder blocks, No. 1 in the “Operation
foam insulation and water- Take Over” plan that police
proof concrete. found in the house — a re-
Police found the legal pad minder to leave his phone
with the notes in the south- at home, authorities say. FBI
ern Oregon home of a man Special Agent Travis Glue-
who is now a suspect in senkamp said in an affida-
sexual assaults around the vit that GPS location data
country. Also in the home: from Zuberi’s cellphone
a cinder block cell where showed he was in Seattle
police say the man, Negasi on July 15. Both his phone
Zuberi, held a woman he and the woman's phone
had allegedly kidnapped This undated photo provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Portland Field Office shows also traveled from Seattle
in Seattle until she escaped the interior of a makeshift cinderblock cell in Klamath Falls, Ore., allegedly used by Negasi Zuberi. to Klamath Falls that day,
(FBI via AP)
by pounding at the door Gluesenkamp said.
with bloodied hands. The FBI set up a website resided since August 2016. a woman for prostitution in Zuberi is now behind bars in
Court and police records asking anyone who be- Those states could include an area known for sex work Nevada, waiting to be ex-
show Zuberi, 29, had been lieves they may have been California, Washington, Or- and afterward posed as an tradited to Oregon, where
on law enforcement’s ra- a victim to come forward. egon, Colorado, Utah, Flor- undercover police officer, he is charged in federal
dar before — for offenses The site says the FBI’s inves- ida, New York, New Jersey, the FBI said Wednesday. court with interstate kid-
such as punching someone tigation has extended to Alabama and Nevada, the He handcuffed her, put napping and transporting
in the face and being a states where Zuberi, who site says. her in leg irons and drove an individual across state
bad tenant whose landlord used several aliases, in- In the Seattle kidnapping to Klamath Falls, Oregon, lines with intent to engage
sought to evict him. cluding Sakima, previously on July 15, Zuberi solicited stopping to rape her on the in criminal sexual activity.q

Ex-Mississippi officers plead guilty to

racist assault on 2 Black men during raid

execution” that went awry, charges come after an As- ed his tongue and broke his
the documents say the of- sociated Press investigation jaw, then exited his neck.
ficers conspired to plant linked the deputies to at Those charged in the case
and tamper with evidence least four violent encoun- are five former Rankin
instead of providing medi- ters with Black men since County Sheriff’s Depart-
cal aid. 2019 that left two dead ment employees — Chris-
The Justice Department and another with lasting in- tian Dedmon, Hunter El-
launched its civil rights juries. “It’s kind of a partner- ward, Brett McAlpin, Jeffrey
probe in February. The Mis- ship in crime,” U.S. District Middleton and Daniel Op-
sissippi attorney general’s Judge Tom Lee said about dyke — and former Rich-
office announced Thursday the conspiracy charges un- land police officer Joshua
Michael Corey Jenkins stands outside Taylor Hill Church in
Braxton, Miss., March 18, 2023. it had filed state charges sealed Thursday. Hartfield, who was off duty
(AP Photo/HG Biggs, File) against the six former of- Court documents said the when he participated in
ficers, including assault, officers took on the Goon the raid.
By Michael Goldberg one man in the mouth. conspiracy and obstruc- Squad nickname “because Federal marshals took the
Associated Press The officers entered the tion of justice. “The defen- of their willingness to use former officers into custody
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Six house without a warrant dants in this case tortured excessive force and not to Thursday, and the judge
white former law enforce- on Jan. 24, assaulting the and inflicted unspeakable report it.” The two victims, said the men will be sen-
ment officers in Mississippi men with a sex object and harm on their victims,” U.S. Michael Corey Jenkins and tenced in mid-November.
who called themselves the using stun guns and other Attorney General Merrick B. Eddie Terrell Parker, filed a The documents identified
“Goon Squad” pleaded objects to abuse them over Garland said, adding that federal civil rights lawsuit Elward as the person who
guilty Thursday to a racist a roughly 90-minute period, they “egregiously violated against Rankin County in shot Jenkins, and Opdyke
assault on two Black men court documents show. the civil rights of citizens June seeking $400 million in and Dedmon as the ones
in a home raid that ended After one victim was shot who they were supposed damages. The bullet fired who assaulted the two men
with an officer shooting and wounded in a “mock to protect.” The civil rights into Jenkins’ mouth lacerat- with the sex object. q