A man accused of kidnapping a woman in Seattle and driving her back to his home in Oregon where he allegedly kept her in a cinder block cell, attempted to escape his jail cell on Tuesday.
Around p. Deputies responded to investigate and found Zuberi standing on his bunk bed near a chipped window in his cell. Deputies detained Zuberi, sent him through the full-body scanner, and moved him to a hard cell with no exterior windows. While searching the cell further, deputies found an improvised tool that was suspected to have been used to damage the window.
Zuberi, 29, was charged with second-degree attempted escape and first-degree disorderly conduct. Zuberi was taken into federal custody after a woman escaped from his Klamath Falls home last month, according to a news release from the FBI field office in Portland.
Zuberi has lived in at least 10 states since and has been linked to violent assaults in at least four, according to the FBI. Investigators have reason to believe there could be several other victims, the agency said. Zuberi was indicted by a federal grand jury in Oregon, court documents filed earlier this month show. The victim said Zuberi pointed a Taser at her, placed her in handcuffs and leg irons and then put her in the back seat of his car, the FBI said. He then drove back to his Klamath Falls home β more than miles away β stopping on the way to sexually assault her, the victim told detectives, according to the news release.
The woman told authorities she repeatedly banged on the door until she was able to break her way out of the cell, the news release said.
