‘Serial Rapist’ Faces Fed Charges for String of Kidnappings, Assaults
BY MN CRIME STAFF
Federal prosecutors have charged a man with multiple counts after investigators linked him to a series of violent sexual assaults involving at least five victims in Minnesota.
Abdimahat Bille Mohamed, 28, is accused of targeting a 15-year-old girl and multiple women in a pattern of abductions and rapes that federal officials say continued even after earlier arrests and releases in state court.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Mohamed was charged by complaint with Kidnapping a Minor and Kidnapping. Federal officials said the complaint details two kidnappings and rapes committed in 2017 and 2025, along with at least three other rapes in the years between.
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Federal authorities began reviewing the case in early December after receiving information about multiple violent kidnappings and rapes.
THE FOLLOWING CONTAINS DESCRIPTIONS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT. DISCRETION IS ADVISED.
Investigators say they quickly confirmed that Mohamed was a suspect in a string of assaults involving at least five victims, several of which were gang rapes involving threats with firearms. Mohamed faces a mandatory minimum of 20 years in prison and up to life in federal custody if convicted.
The complaint states that on Dec. 12, 2017, Mohamed and two other men kidnapped a 15-year-old girl he met on Snapchat. The girl was picked up in Saint Paul and driven to Minneapolis against her will, where two more men entered the car. One pointed a short-barreled silver revolver at her head and threatened to kill her if she did not comply. The victim was forced to perform oral sex on one of the men, then on Mohamed, who then raped her vaginally in the car. She escaped after the assault, hid, and called police. A sexual assault exam was completed at a hospital.
In September 2024, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension matched Mohamed’s DNA to swabs taken from the victim, excluding more than 99.99% of the general population. On Feb. 7, 2018, Mohamed and two others raped another woman in a car after she accepted a ride from a man she knew from Instagram. According to the complaint, the men held her against her will and sexually assaulted her. She fled to a Motel 6, then told a Lyft driver what happened. That driver called 911. Police took the woman to a hospital for a sexual assault exam. A condom recovered from a vehicle at the scene contained DNA that investigators later matched to Mohamed.
On May 8, 2018, Mohamed drove to the Saint Paul home of a woman he knew from Snapchat and drove off with her despite her protests. The woman told him she could not leave because her son was inside her apartment, but Mohamed locked the car doors and drove her to Minneapolis, where he raped her in an alley. Another man then got into the car with a black handgun, threatened to kill her, and forced her to perform oral sex. She ran to a gas station afterward and took the light rail back to Saint Paul, where she contacted police and completed a sexual assault exam.
In September 2024, the BCA matched Mohamed’s DNA to swabs from that exam. On May 30, 2024, prosecutors say Mohamed raped a woman he had taken to his Minneapolis apartment after picking her up with her sister. He carried her to a bedroom, forced her onto the bed, and raped her after she refused to perform oral sex. When her sister opened the door after hearing screams, Mohamed threatened to kill her and ordered her to leave. Police later found the woman crying and stumbling inside the apartment.
Officers arrested Mohamed, and he was taken to a medical center for a sexual assault exam. According to the complaint, he became hostile, kicked squad doors and windows, spit on officers, and fought with hospital security and nurses. Staff removed him from the medical center before the exam could be completed. Investigators obtained a DNA swab from Mohamed through a search warrant in September 2024.
The most recent case detailed in the complaint occurred in September 2025. On Sept. 15, Mohamed picked up a woman in Mankato who believed he would take her to get food before returning her home. Instead, he drove off with her, told her she was not going home, and took her about 70 miles to a hotel in Bloomington. He kept her there for nearly a week. The complaint states he raped her twice, choked her during an assault, and physically restrained her when she tried to escape. The victim managed to send a text to her sister saying she thought she was being kidnapped, but Mohamed took her phone. Her sister contacted police, who searched for her. On Sept. 21, the victim jumped out of Mohamed’s car, ran to a man nearby, and told him she was being kidnapped. He called 911. She was taken to a hospital for a sexual assault exam. DNA collected from that exam matched Mohamed’s known sample.
In a media release announcing the charges, Mohamed was referred to as a “serial rapist and kidnapper.”
“This Somali national in Minnesota is charged with raping a minor and multiple adult women before being detained — only to be quickly released by a local court, after which he committed yet another rape. This horrific case illustrates how left-wing soft-on-crime policies and vetting failures put innocent people at dire risk. If Minnesota will not protect its own people, the Department of Justice will do it for them,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a written statement.
“The allegations are sickening — multiple kidnappings and rapes, including against minors — and they happened in a state that has chosen ideology over public safety. Minnesota’s radical soft-on-crime policies created an environment where predators believe they can act without consequence. President Trump was elected to restore law and order, and under Attorney General Bondi, this Department is making sure violent criminals like this will face real justice and spend the rest of their natural lives in federal prison,” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said.
The FBI is continuing to investigate Mohamed for the offenses outlined in the complaint as well as other potential assaults. Authorities ask anyone who believes they or someone they know may be a victim of Mohamed to call the FBI tip line at 1-800-CALL-FBI.
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