A person who dedicated two kidnappings, 13 months aside, was convicted by a jury on March 3, 2023, after a five-day trial in federal court docket in Sioux Metropolis.
Arjune Ahmed, age 27, of South Sioux Metropolis, Nebraska, was convicted of two counts of kidnapping. The decision was returned Friday afternoon following about two hours of jury deliberations.
The proof at trial confirmed that on August 21, 2019, Ahmed adopted a girl from the Exhausting Rock On line casino on Fourth Avenue, the place he tricked her into getting near his automobile. As soon as she was shut, he grabbed her and pulled her into his automobile. He then sped into Nebraska from Iowa, the place he then sexually assaulted her.
13 months later, on October 16, 2020, Ahmed used social media to trick a girl into assembly him for breakfast. As an alternative of driving her to breakfast, Ahmed drove her from midtown Sioux Metropolis, Iowa to Bacon Creek Park the place he then sexually assaulted her.
Moreover, the jury heard proof that in 2015 a girl was the sufferer of a home-invasion and sexual assault. That crime went unsolved for practically 5 years till DNA proof found within the investigations of the 2019 and 2020 assaults had been linked to Ahmed.
United States Legal professional Timothy Duax acknowledged that “the investigative crew of native, county, and federal investigators did an distinctive job of gathering the proof on this case. When mixed with the courtroom efforts of AUSA Fairchild and his crew from the U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace, the outcome was {that a} very harmful man, who preyed upon the ladies of our group was convicted and brought off the streets. I used to be impressed with braveness of the victims who had been capable of confront their attacker and assist forestall him from hurting anybody else.”
Sentencing earlier than United States District Court docket Chief Decide Leonard T. Strand will likely be set after a presentence report is ready. Ahmed stays in custody of america Marshal. Ahmed faces a potential most sentence of life imprisonment, a $250,000 fantastic, and 5 years of supervised launch following any imprisonment for every rely.
The case was investigated by the Dakota County, Nebraska Sherriff’s Workplace, the South Sioux Metropolis, Nebraska Police Division, the Sioux Metropolis, Iowa Police Division, and the FBI. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Legal professional Forde Fairchild
Court docket file info at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl.
The case file quantity is 21-CR-04087.
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