Orange County authorities are looking for a 48-year-old Placentia man who failed to surrender to authorities this week on $1 million bail in a 2002 kidnapping case.
Nasir Kamaruddin Shamsi is considered the mastermind of the March 18, 2002, kidnapping of Sohiel Daliri, who managed to survive more than two weeks bound and gagged in a Long Beach motel, Orange County Deputy District Attorney Andre Manssourian said Thursday.
Shamsi is a U.S. citizen, but has ties to India, Manssourian added.
Shamsi was free on $250,000 bail since 2004, but was charged in a marijuana cultivation case in October and Orange County Superior Court Judge Francisco Briseno increased his bail to $1 million on Friday.
Several co-defendants have pleaded guilty. Shamsi was the last person to be tried for the scheme to ransom Daliri for $10,000, Manssourian said.
Esau Abrajan, 26, of Rancho Santa Margarita, and Eric Anthony Velasquez, 28, of Rancho Santa Margarita, pleaded guilty Oct. 15 to one felony count each of kidnapping with the use of a dangerous weapon, grand theft, possession of a stolen vehicle and possession of stolen property, Manssourian said.
They are scheduled to be sentenced to 11 years in prison Jan. 22. As part of the plea deal, they will not receive credit for the nine years they have already served in jail, he added.
Brian David Good, 35, of Huntington Beach, pleaded guilty to a felony count of kidnapping Feb. 28, 2006, and sentenced to five years in prison. Scott Douglass Burns, 50, of Huntington Beach, pleaded guilty to kidnapping and residential burglary charges. He is scheduled to be sentenced to nine years and four months in prison Feb. 26.
Daliri hired a contractor, who employed his brother Shamsi, to remodel a home he owned in Orange, which he rented out, Manssourian said.
Shamsi developed the scheme to kidnap Daliri and recruited brothers Velasquez and Abrajan to abduct Daliri, Manssourian said.
Velasquez and Abrajan snatched Daliri from the house, bound him up, blindfolded him and gagged him with duct tape, Manssourian said. For two days they kept him in the home in Orange before moving him to the Long Beach<NO1>ZZPT<NO> motel, Manssourian
said.
Burns drove the moving truck used to relocate Daliri, Manssourian said.
Abrajan and Velasquez kept guard on Daliri in the motel while Shamsi used Daliri's credit cards for 13 days, Manssourian said.
After 13 days, Shamsi called Daliri's girlfriend and demanded $10,000 ransom. The girlfriend called police and Shamsi was soon arrested as he tried to pick up the ransom money with Good, who drove with him, Manssourian said.
Velasquez was watching Daliri when police arrived to rescue him and Abrajan showed up as they were arresting Velasquez, Manssourian said.
Daliri told investigators he was fed only three or four times and allowed to shower twice during the two weeks. He was taken to the hospital and treated for dehydration and minor cuts after being freed.
Daliri also told investigators his captors would hold small parties in the motel room where some partygoers would use drugs and shoot rubber pellets at him, Manssourian said. Daliri was so traumatized he moved out of the country.
While still facing charges in the kidnapping, Shamsi was accused of operating a marijuana cultivation farm with his friend, Karen Russell, in her Laguna Niguel home in May 2006, Manssourian said.
Shamsi and Russell were charged Oct. 28, 2009, with cultivating marijuana, possessing marijuana for sale and child abuse, Manssourian said.
Russell is due in court for a pretrial hearing Jan. 12.
Shamsi was supposed to return to court Monday to surrender to authorities or post the $1 million bail, but never showed, Manssourian said. If authorities find him he will be held without bail.
Anyone with information on Shamsi is asked to call Supervising District Attorney Investigator Anthony Sosnowski at 714-347-8814.
Nasir Kamaruddin Shamsi is considered the mastermind of the March 18, 2002, kidnapping of Sohiel Daliri, who managed to survive more than two weeks bound and gagged in a Long Beach motel, Orange County Deputy District Attorney Andre Manssourian said Thursday.
Shamsi is a U.S. citizen, but has ties to India, Manssourian added.
Shamsi was free on $250,000 bail since 2004, but was charged in a marijuana cultivation case in October and Orange County Superior Court Judge Francisco Briseno increased his bail to $1 million on Friday.
Several co-defendants have pleaded guilty. Shamsi was the last person to be tried for the scheme to ransom Daliri for $10,000, Manssourian said.
Esau Abrajan, 26, of Rancho Santa Margarita, and Eric Anthony Velasquez, 28, of Rancho Santa Margarita, pleaded guilty Oct. 15 to one felony count each of kidnapping with the use of a dangerous weapon, grand theft, possession of a stolen vehicle and possession of stolen property, Manssourian said.
They are scheduled to be sentenced to 11 years in prison Jan. 22. As part of the plea deal, they will not receive credit for the nine years they have already served in jail, he added.
Brian David Good, 35, of Huntington Beach, pleaded guilty to a felony count of kidnapping Feb. 28, 2006, and sentenced to five years in prison. Scott Douglass Burns, 50, of Huntington Beach, pleaded guilty to kidnapping and residential burglary charges. He is scheduled to be sentenced to nine years and four months in prison Feb. 26.
Daliri hired a contractor, who employed his brother Shamsi, to remodel a home he owned in Orange, which he rented out, Manssourian said.
Shamsi developed the scheme to kidnap Daliri and recruited brothers Velasquez and Abrajan to abduct Daliri, Manssourian said.
Velasquez and Abrajan snatched Daliri from the house, bound him up, blindfolded him and gagged him with duct tape, Manssourian said. For two days they kept him in the home in Orange before moving him to the Long Beach<NO1>ZZPT<NO> motel, Manssourian
said.
Burns drove the moving truck used to relocate Daliri, Manssourian said.
Abrajan and Velasquez kept guard on Daliri in the motel while Shamsi used Daliri's credit cards for 13 days, Manssourian said.
After 13 days, Shamsi called Daliri's girlfriend and demanded $10,000 ransom. The girlfriend called police and Shamsi was soon arrested as he tried to pick up the ransom money with Good, who drove with him, Manssourian said.
Velasquez was watching Daliri when police arrived to rescue him and Abrajan showed up as they were arresting Velasquez, Manssourian said.
Daliri told investigators he was fed only three or four times and allowed to shower twice during the two weeks. He was taken to the hospital and treated for dehydration and minor cuts after being freed.
Daliri also told investigators his captors would hold small parties in the motel room where some partygoers would use drugs and shoot rubber pellets at him, Manssourian said. Daliri was so traumatized he moved out of the country.
While still facing charges in the kidnapping, Shamsi was accused of operating a marijuana cultivation farm with his friend, Karen Russell, in her Laguna Niguel home in May 2006, Manssourian said.
Shamsi and Russell were charged Oct. 28, 2009, with cultivating marijuana, possessing marijuana for sale and child abuse, Manssourian said.
Russell is due in court for a pretrial hearing Jan. 12.
Shamsi was supposed to return to court Monday to surrender to authorities or post the $1 million bail, but never showed, Manssourian said. If authorities find him he will be held without bail.
Anyone with information on Shamsi is asked to call Supervising District Attorney Investigator Anthony Sosnowski at 714-347-8814.
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