A man, accused of kidnapping a woman in Seattle and locking her in a cinderblock cell, tried to escape from an Oregon jail cell this week, deputies said.
Officials said Negasi Zuberi, 29, was found standing on his bunk bed and the window in his cell was chipped Tuesday afternoon at the Jackson County Jail in Medford.
Zuberi was detained and sent through a full-body scanner. According to the Jackson County Sheriff's Office, deputies found an improvised tool that was suspected to have been used in breaking the window. Woman’s escape from cinder block cell likely spared others from similar nightmare, FBI says . He drove her hundreds of miles to his Oregon home, locked her in a cinderblock cell in his garage.
Negasi Zuberi in Reno, Nev., on July 16, 2023, is accused of kidnapping a woman and holding her in a cinder block cell.
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