A Jamaica husband and wife were indicted in Brooklyn federal court along with five co-defendants, all from Queens, in two kidnappings in Jamaica and Woodside.
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A federal grand jury in Brooklyn indicted a Jamaica couple and five of their accomplices, all from the Bangladeshi community in Queens, for two alleged kidnappings in Jamaica and Woodside last year.
Abu Chowdhury, 34, and his wife Iffat Lubna, 24, have been charged with kidnapping and conspiracy to abduct two men in an indictment unsealed in Brooklyn federal court on Jan. 11, which also named co-defendants Syed Rubel Ahmed, 43, Shahed Alom, 29, and Anzu Khan, 28, all from Jamaica in addition to 38-year-old Sultana Razia of Woodside as members of the kidnapping ring.
According to the indictment, on Mar. 27, 2023, Ahmed, Alom, Chowdhury, Khan and a co-conspirator who remains at large, abducted and assaulted a man who had been walking in the vicinity of 181st Street and Hillside Avenue in Jamaica and over the course of 14 hours the victim was filmed naked standing on a residential street, beaten and threatened with death.
At one point, the victim begged for water and the defendants gave him water laced with a sedative. The victim lost consciousness and woke up the next day at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center,
A second man was abducted in front of a restaurant at 72nd Street and Broadway in Woodside on May 11, 2023 as he was waiting to meet with Lubna. He was forced into a minivan and was beaten before he was taken to a nearby hotel and allegedly sodomized by Chowdhury who later made a ransom call to the victim’s father demanding $20,000 for the victim’s safety, according to court filings.
The neighborhood where the victim was abducted is a Bangladeshi community and the defendants warned the victim that he could be easily found and attacked if he reached out to law enforcement. The victim was tied up and blindfolded and left in an abandoned house where he was able to free himself…
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