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Date: 12-19-2020
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Case Number: 20-CR-08030-PCT-MTL
Judge: Michael T. Liburdi
Court: United States District Court for the District of Arizona (Maricopa County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States District Attorney’s Office, Phoenix, Arizona
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Description: Phoenix, Arizona kidnapping charge criminal defense lawyer represented defendant, Elbert Philip Shabi, age 69, who was charged with kidnapping.
Shabi admitted that in 2016 or 2017, he seized the victim as she fled from him on foot. Shabi threatened the victim and held her overnight against her will. The kidnapping happened on the Navajo Nation Indian Reservation, where Shabi is a tribal member.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety conducted the investigation in this case. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Dimitra Sampson, Amy Chang, and Jillian Besancon, District of Arizona, Phoenix, handled the prosecution.
Outcome: Defendant was sentenced to 20 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release. (This was effectively a life sentence.)
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