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A Queens supermarket owner brutally beat, kidnapped and sexually assaulted a series of rivals and enemies as a pay back for them mocking his claim that he was the “King of New York,” federal prosecutors said.
Abu Chowdhury, 36, was found guilty in Brooklyn Federal court Friday for his bizarre 2023 campaign of terror, in which he grabbed three of his doubters off the street and subjected them to tortures, such as violating them with poles, filming them naked and drugging them.
Chowdhury was hoping to “protect and promote” his standing in the community as the street “king” with his attacks.
He wanted to protect and promote his [reputation], and to show his community he was, as he said, the ‘King of New York,’”
Feds said that Chowdhury’s kidnappings began after an infantile TikTok fight with a 41-year-old man, who claimed an insecure Chowdhury “didn’t own the streets.”
The beef boiled over when Chowdhury and a group of accomplices grabbed the man as he was walking near 181st Street and Hillside Avenue on March 27, 2023, prosecutors said.
The group beat the 41-year-old and threatened his life during a hellish car ride. The suspects forced the man to stand naked in the middle of the street for a video.
The attack only ended after the sick crew gave the victim a sedative, leaving him to wake up bruised in a local hospital.
In May of the same year, feds said Chowdhury kidnapped and attacked two more people off the street who had supposedly insulted his then-girlfriend Iffat Lubna
After grabbing the two men and bringing
them to a hotel in LIC, Chowdhury sexually violated one with a rod and beat the another one.
Chowdhury was convicted of the three kidnappings on Thursday, with his wife Lubna having been found guilty of the latter two by a jury back in April, feds said.
He’s been found guilty of three charges of kidnapping and three charges of conspiring to kidnap, and faces a maximum penalty of life in prison, prosecutors said.
Judge Morrison allowed Chowdhury to remain free on a $250,000 bond, though under house arrest
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Chelly Mathers
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Y'all allowed these MF to come and think they're running sht here
