A judge set bail Monday at $500,000 for a Vancouver man accused of attempting to kidnap a woman Friday from her Orchards apartment, while professing his love for her.
Mohamed A. Aboulezz, 38, appeared in Clark County Superior Court on suspicion of first-degree kidnapping, fourth-degree assault, felony harassment and two counts of residential burglary. He is scheduled to be arraigned Sept. 23.
Judge John Fairgrieve also ordered Aboulezz to surrender his passport and placed him under GPS monitoring.
Court records indicate Clark County sheriff’s deputies requested Aboulezz be held without bail because of statements he allegedly made during interviews about returning to Egypt. Deputies said Aboulezz told them he would “leave the country tomorrow.”
Defense attorney Lisa Toth said Aboulezz has lived in the United States for nine years and has no intention of leaving the country. She said he would comply with a court order to surrender his passport, and he has no criminal history.
Deputies responded at about 11 a.m. to the Prairie View Apartments, 12611 N.E. 99th St. A woman there said she met Aboulezz a week ago, and earlier that day, he texted her asking to come over to her apartment, according to a probable cause affidavit. She said she didn’t think anything of it and allowed him to come visit.
When he arrived, the woman said he began repeatedly yelling at her, “You are going to be my wife!” She told deputies she became fearful and told him to leave, court records state.
Aboulezz grew angrier, she said, before he slapped her in the face. She said she ducked when he swung at her again, and he grabbed her by the hair. He pulled her by her hair about 25 feet, out of the apartment and down the exterior hallway, she said. She recalled he was still saying she was going to be his wife and professing his love to her, the affidavit states.
She screamed at him to let her go and swung her arms trying to free herself, she said, which deputies later saw on doorbell surveillance video, according to court records.
The woman eventually freed herself, ran back to her apartment and locked the door. She then saw Aboulezz on her back porch; he began breaking her furniture and throwing things at the glass door in what she thought was an attempt to get inside, the affidavit states.
Aboulezz then came back to the front door and shouted about his sexual desire for the woman, court records state. He eventually left.
On Saturday night, deputies returned to the woman’s apartment; she reported that Aboulezz had been threatening her over the phone, according to the affidavit.
She said he’d been calling her all night. He told her he was going to “chop you up into pieces and eat you,” she said. He also offered her money in exchange for sex and leaving her alone, court records state.
She reported that she was afraid Aboulezz would come to her apartment and kill her.
With the woman’s help, deputies located Aboulezz in downtown Vancouver and arrested him, a sheriff’s office news release states.
Deputies said when Aboulezz was arrested, he got one hand out of the handcuffs and put his foot in the door of the patrol car to prevent it from closing. He continued to resist arrest. Deputies pulled him from the patrol car and used a stun gun on him to get him back into the handcuffs, the affidavit states.
The sheriff’s office noted this was the third case in the last two weeks in which a female was allegedly abducted.
Last week, deputies arrested a 31-year-old man who is accused of kidnapping a woman and driving her SUV around Clark County until she jumped from the moving vehicle. Detectives also issued an Amber Alert on Friday for a 15-year-old girl, who was allegedly abducted by her mother’s boyfriend. She was found later that day in Portland.
The sheriff’s office reminds people to be careful meeting people from online, in bars and at parties, and to be wary of letting people into their homes if they don’t know them very well.
