Negasi Zuberi threatened to kill his wife and kids before kidnap attempt

The predator who allegedly held a woman captive in a makeshift cinder block cell in his Oregon home had a history of beating his wife and threatening to kill both her and their two young children, according to court papers obtained by The Post.

Negasi Zuberi had attacked his wife so viciously in July 2020 at a previous home in Antioch, California, their kids — who were both under five at the time — became traumatized, according to the documents.

“He screams at the kids and me, threatens me verbally, financially and mentally abusive to all of us,” his wife, Alycia Westfall, alleged in the request for a protective order.

“We get waken up every night from him being drunk and loud and scares us.

“He has hit me many times. He takes my phone so I can’t call the cops. He takes my money so I can’t have any way to do anything, transfers my money to his own account. He is [sic] caused me to be stressed and my kids every day and [sic] scared.”

Westfall added their two sons — two and four years old at the time— also witnessed Zuberi break windows, the TV and bottles as made threats against their lives.

When she tried to call the police, Westfall said Zuberi just beat her more.

A judge granted Westfall’s temporary restraining order request and ordered Zuberi to stay at least 100 yards away from her and the children.

However, the order was dismissed and the case taken off the court calendar on September 14, 2020 for reasons which weren’t recorded.

Police started looking for Zuberi in July after he had apparently kidnapped and sexually assaulted a sex worker, driven her to his home and attempted to imprison her in a makshift cell in the family garage.

After she escaped, police tracked down Zuberi to a Walmart in Reno, Nevada, on the afternoon of July 16.

He was with Westfall and one of their sons and a 45-minute standoff took place before Zuberi surrendered. He was taken to the Washoe County Jail, in Reno, and faces life in prison if convicted on interstate kidnapping charges.

Zuberi will be extradited to Oregon, but that could take several weeks, authorities said.

The FBI’s Portland field office said the woman who was trapped at the makeshift cinder block prison was able to beat down the cell door “with her hands until they were bloody,” successfully breaking it open. She ran down the street and managed to flag a motorist for help.

“According to the complaint, this woman was kidnapped, chained, sexually assaulted, and locked in a cinderblock cell,” Stephanie Shark, the assistant special agent in charge, said in a statement. “Her quick thinking and will to survive may have saved other women from a similar nightmare.”

Westfall’s father, who did not want to use his name, told The Post he was shocked at the allegations and unaware what his daughter and Zuberi did to support themselves.

Authorities say they believe Zuberi has other victims in many of the 12 states he has lived in, including New York and California.

Zuberi — who also went by several aliases such as “Sakima,” Justin Hyche and Justin Kouassi — picked up other criminal cases along the way, including one in Chicago for carrying and possessing a firearm, which is a misdemeanor.

He also had eviction cases out of Chicago and Vancouver, Washington where he was renting out rooms and beds at a two-story townhome that falsely claimed was his.

Abishek Kandar, the actual owner of the home, wrote in an court affidavit Zuberi had been subletting rooms illegally but had not paid rent for about six months. He left the house damaged, threatened neighbors and used the home to breed puppies, Kandar said.

Neighbors also said Zuberi was combative and had a steady stream of young women coming in and out of the Vancouver townhouse.

“Danny,” one of Zuberi’s neighbors, told The Post Zuberi threatened him several times, especially after it was revealed Zuberi was lying to his tenants about owning the rental property.

Once Zuberi was evicted, Danny said he went into the home and was shocked at what he discovered.

“We went through the home with the owner because we wanted to help him since we are in the construction industry, but we found it in absolutely horrible condition,” Danny said.

“There was garbage piled up inside the garage and on the inside of house was blood on the walls. There was a lot of weird stuff in there that he left, like heavy chains on the bed. It smelled horrible.”

Authorities at Wednesday’s press conference said Zuberi may have raped victims by posing as a police officer or drugging drinks.

According to police records obtained by The Post, one of those women answered a Craigslist ad posted by Zuberi in December 2022. The woman said she had stayed at the house for four days when she started to feel Zuberi would harm her.

“She says she wants to leave, doesn’t feel safe,” the officer wrote in the report, adding the woman, “Feels that [Zuberi] was up to some shady s—t and was about to do something bad.”