Negasi Zuberi onJudge Judyin September 2019.
The FBI is asking for help identifying victims of a suspected violent sex offender who was formerly featured onJudge Judyin Oregon.
The agency’s Portland Field Office said in apress releaseit has reason to believe Negasi Zuberi — who was arrested in Reno, Nevada, after an alleged victim of his claimed she escaped from a cinderblock cell after beingkidnapped and sexually assaulted— could have moresexual-assaultvictims.
The agency said Zuberi, 29, has used several aliases over the years including “Sakima,” “Justin Hyche” and “Justin Kouassi” and has bounced around multiple states since 2016 including California, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Utah, Florida, New York, New Jersey, Alabama and Nevada.
During that time, Zuberi appeared in a 2019 episode ofJudge Judyover a domestic dispute after suing the mother of his two children, Alycia Westfall, according toEntertainment Tonight. In the episode, the judge had ruled in his favor, and Westfall was ordered to pay him $2,500 in damages.
Photo of Negasi Zuberi after he was arrested.FBI of Portland
FBI of Portland
The FBI alleged in court documents that Zuberi traveled from his home in Klamath Falls, Oregon, to Seattle and posed as an undercover police officer while soliciting the woman’s services as a prostitute.
She claimed he pointed a “taser at her” and “placed her in handcuffs and leg irons” in the back seat of his car. As he drove them backto his home in Oregon, she also claimed that he had sexually assaulted her.
The woman then alleged to authorities that once they arrived at his home in Klamath Falls, Oregon, he “moved her into a makeshift cell that he had constructed in his garage” made out of cinder blocks and installed in reverse so it couldn’t be opened from the inside.
A photo of the cell the woman alleges she escaped from.FBI of Portland
“We do have indications that he has a history of violence and that violence has targeted women,” FBI Portland’s Assistant Special Agent in Charge Stephanie Shark told PEOPLE last week. “And each time that we’ve seen, it seems to escalate.”
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“The allegations in this case are shocking,” Shark continued. “If any person would put themselves in the circumstance of the victim, very terrifying."
She added, “And based off of the history as we know it at this time, it is very likely there are other victims throughout the country and we want to make them feel empowered and provide information.”
source: people.com
