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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

2 charged in kidnapping, assault at mosque

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Peter Christopher
2423 days ago
20181120

Two men at­tached to the Cara­po Mosque have been charged in re­la­tion to the kid­nap­ping and as­sault of a Princes Town man.

The men are set to ap­pear be­fore an Ari­ma Mag­is­trate Tues­day af­ter­noon charged with false im­pris­on­ment, as­sault by beat­ing, rob­bery with vi­o­lence and kid­nap­ping.

It is al­leged that last Wednes­day, the man beat the vic­tim at the Cara­po Mosque, de­mand­ed his car keys and placed in the back of the car and sub­se­quent­ly left him at the O’meara In­dus­tri­al Es­tate.

The man had re­port­ed­ly gone to the mosque to meet Imam Has­san Ali last Wednes­day, fol­low­ing which he took the two ac­cused to a place in Trinci­ty.

On their way back to Cara­po, it is al­leged the men be­gan mak­ing threats to the vic­tim and be­gan hit­ting him on his shoul­der. On ar­riv­ing at the mosque, the man was al­leged­ly or­dered to hand over the keys to his car be­fore be­ing tied up and placed in a room by the ac­cused. In the room, the vic­tim was al­leged­ly beat­en and in­ter­ro­gat­ed be­fore he was placed in a car and dropped off at O’meara.

The vic­tim made a re­port at the Ch­agua­nas Po­lice Sta­tion last Thurs­day and po­lice took the men in cus­tody, along with four oth­ers, in­clud­ing Imam Ali, last Sat­ur­day. Ali was re­leased from cus­tody on Mon­day with­out be­ing charged.

The men were charged ear­li­er Tues­day af­ter be­ing iden­ti­fied dur­ing an ID pa­rade.


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