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A woman escaped a kidnapper's cinderblock cell in Oregon. Police are now searching for additional victims in other states.

A woman who escaped a cinderblock cell in a man's garage in Klamath Falls, Oregon, was abducted hundreds of miles away last month in Seattle, and now authorities are looking for more potential victims across multiple states.

The man, 29-year-old Negasi Zuberi of Klamath Falls, posed as an undercover police officer and kidnapped the woman in the early hours July 15, then shackled, sexually assaulted her and locked her up, according to court records.

He was arrested and federally charged with interstate kidnapping, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted, Assistant U.S. Attorney Nathan Lichvarcik said at a news conference Wednesday.

Authorities said Zuberi has been linked to sexual assaults in at least four more states, and they are searching for more possible victims. He has lived in multiple states since 2016, possibly including California, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Utah, Florida, New York, New Jersey, Alabama and Nevada, the FBI said.

The victim in Klamath Falls, who wasn't identified, "briefly slept and awoke to the realization that she would likely die if she did not attempt to escape," according to a criminal complaint.

The makeshift cell and the kidnapper:

The "makeshift" cell was made of cinderblocks and a metal door that had been installed backward so it couldn't be opened from the inside, the complaint said. There was also an exterior door, and the cell had been built to be soundproof, Klamath Falls police said in a news release.

Not to be indelicate: But it's a rape dungeon. A rape and murder dungeon.

Zuberi had solicited the victim to engage in prostitution before telling her he was an undercover officer, the criminal complaint said. He drove her about seven hours and 450 miles away, officials said Wednesday.

"Sadly, we believe there are more victims," Shark said.

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The FBI said investigators believe Zuberi has used different methods to "gain control" of victims, including drugging their drinks, impersonating law enforcement officers and soliciting sex workers before "violently sexually assaulting them." Klamath Falls police said the victim reported that Zuberi had "police patches, a taser, and other law enforcement equipment."

The below is... odd.

The home where Zuberi held the woman in the garage is owned by Klamath Falls Mayor Carol Westfall and her husband, Kevin Westfall, according to court records. They evicted him after his arrest.

The media gave a lot of attention to another racial hoax kidnapping.

Carlee Russell is the 26-year-old Alabama woman whose disappearance and apparent kidnapping sparked a manhunt that lasted 49-hours. Earlier this week Russell admitted the entire thing was a hoax which she now claims she carried out by herself. Today, she was charged with two misdemeanors.

Misdemeanors!

She called 911, claiming that she spotted a child walking alone on the freeway. She left behind her empty car, with the intent to convince the police that she had attempted to intervene with the child, but was kidnapped by a (white) man with "orange hair."

When authorities responding to her original 911 call arrived, they found Russell's vehicle along with her wig, phone, and purse. Neither Russell nor the child were in sight.

Two days later, Russell arrived home. Police were able to interview her and she told a story of being forced into an 18-wheeler by a man with orange hair.

She claimed she had been abducted by a man with orange hair and a bald spot who told her he was checking on the child she had seen, she told police.

She said she was forced into a vehicle after screaming, was blindfolded, and later taken to a house where she was forced to get undressed. Russell also said her abductors took pictures of her, but she did not remember them having any physical or sexual contact with her, she told police.

Russell said after being put back into the vehicle, she was able to escape and ran through the woods before emerging near her home, according to police.

Russell's dramatic story got a lot of media attention and her parents were featured on the Today show a few days after she turned up at home.

We'll see how much attention the media gives this real kidnapping. Bear in mind, police believe there are further victims still in makeshift prisons. Publicizing his photo and his crimes could literally save women from rape and murder.

But they're going to underplay this, aren't they? And hide the picture of the kidnapper from the public?

Because women's lives are nothing compared to The Message.

Correction: I said the kidnapper is still at large. He's not, he was arrested.

But publicizing his crime may help find additional victims.

Noted Pinhead LeBron James opened a, get this, school. And not a school for basketball, but for academics.

You'll never guess what happened next. Every child in the school failed at the state exam for minimum achievement in math.

LeBron James' I Promise school is under scrutiny after it was recently reealed that no eighth-grade student has passed the state math test since third grade. While some students improved, others regressed, with black students and those with disabilities testing in the bottom 5% in Ohio. School board president Derrick Hall expressed disappointment, questioning the impact of the provided resources. Keith Liechty-Clifford, director of school improvement, said the data showed both progression and regression at the Akron school. The school, receiving funding from state, local and federal sources, costs taxpayers around $8 million annually.

Perfect.

The left has unleashed a new epidemic on us, even better than the last one, which was monkeypox.

This epidemic is the rash of "street takeovers," in which Mostly Peaceful Youths (Who Are Turning Their Lives Around and Just Applied to Community College) declare the streets to be theirs and chase out lawabiding citizens and jump up and down on their cars like animals.

One of the latest "fads" among urban teens has come to be known as "street takeovers." Groups that organize themselves over social media show up at some random location and begin chasing pedestrians out of the area, jumping on and damaging cars, setting fires, and committing whatever other crimes come to mind. This has become a regular occurrence in Chicago, unfortunately, as if they didn't already have enough problems to deal with. But these events also represent an early challenge for Brandon Johnson, the city's new mayor. So how is he responding? The mayor explained his new strategy after a recent street takeover in the South Loop district of the city and it was a (somewhat) pleasant surprise. He included some of the usual social justice and "intervention" talk that we've grown accustomed to, but he also sent in a strong contingent of the Chicago Police and had dozens of teens arrested.

Arrested and then what? Immediately released? Sentenced to "time served"?

As this lunatic is appointed to carry on Anthony Fauci's work of funding bat bioweapon labs in China and perjuring himself to Congress, the head of the CDC tells a softball interviewer at NPR that she's going to rebuild trust with the public by not admitting any of the CDC's previous lies and catastrophic errors.

Two years into the pandemic, there was a survey in which a quarter of the respondents said that they trusted the CDC "not very much" or "not at all." How do you plan to try to rebuild trust with people in the U.S.?

Well, I think there's really three important steps. First is making sure that we are being transparent. We're having clear communications that are simple and accurate, that folks can understand, that they know that there are common sense solutions for them to protect their health.

And the second is making sure that we execute or have good performance in what the CDC is meant to do. And so making sure that we are doing what we say we're going to do. Just as you trust in your own personal life, I want to make sure that you trust that we are going to to do that for you.

And the third, very important, is about building relationships and partnership. Protecting the health of this country is a team sport. And so those are that we need to bring partners together in order to protect people's health. We can't do it alone from the CDC.

Transparency does not include ever acknowledging errors or failures! But apart from hiding all of the CDC's mistakes and straight-up lies, she's going to be totally, totally transparent.

The leftwing propaganda media's attempt to cancel Jason Aldean has failed spectacularly.

As of Tuesday, country music icons are dominating the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time since the chart began in 1958.

Jason Aldean is in the top spot with his anthem "Try That in a Small Town," which shot to success after the corporate media and losers over at CMT attempted to cancel both him and the song. The song came in at No. 1 for its debut, and rose to No. 1 on the Billboard chart in just a week, according to the magazine.

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This is the first time in history that country music stars have taken up the top three spots on the Billboard chart, and it's truly inspiring. I come from the U.K., where we regularly make a song No. 1 on the charts as a form of protest.

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Is the same thing happening in America right now? Are we subconsciously supporting country music artists because they're the only ones singing about a country we want to live in? No. Making Aldean No. 1 was a highly conscious decision. I just wish We the People had the power to do more to help ourselves during these chaotic times.

A Florida elector in the 2016 election says that he faced intense pressure to vote for someone other than Trump, as the rules required him to vote for, and yet, none of those people pressuring him have been indicted by Jack Smith.

The chairman of the Florida Republican Party, who served as a presidential elector in 2016 and 2020, told RedState the left ran an organized campaign to intimidate him, and other electors pledged to Donald J. Trump to flip their votes--overturning the 2016 election.

"I'm not sure there's anything in history, like the pressure campaign that was put on the 2016 electors," said Christian Zeigler, a leader in the Sarasota GOP and congressional staffer, before he took over the state chairmanship in February.

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