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.
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.
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.
