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Investigators say the man arrested for allegedly kidnapping and chaining a woman in an Oregon cinder block cell and later escaped has Bay Area ties.
Under false pretenses, the perpetrator portrayed himself as an undercover police officer, persuading the woman to accompany him in his vehicle with the display of a fake badge and the ominous presence of a handgun.
A woman who escaped her kidnapper by punching her way out of a cinder block cell at a home in Oregon may have spared other women from a similar fate.
Zuberi, 29, faces federal charges that include interstate kidnapping, and authorities said they are looking for other possible victims after linking him to the other assaults.
Negasi Zuberi is now in federal custody for the kidnapping, and police say he's a suspect in sexual assaults in at least four other states