That was not a raisin

[Marilyn. 340]

10:32 PM CDT on Tuesday, October 25, 2005

By TIM WYATT / The Dallas Morning News

Testimony began Tuesday in the trial of a cabdriver accused of dusting pastries with his dried, grated feces at a Dallas grocery store last summer.

Behrouz Nahidmobarekeh, 49, faces two felony charges of tampering with consumer products in separate incidents in July at the Fiesta Mart at Ross Avenue and Henderson Street.

In his opening statement Tuesday afternoon, prosecutor Taly Haffar told jurors that the store workers went through seven months of customer complaints that unpackaged, fresh-baked goods "smelled and tasted like manure" until the defendant was arrested in late July.

Mr. Nahidmobarekeh pleaded not guilty in state District Judge Vic Cunningham's court. His defense attorney, Clark Birdsall, did not give an opening statement.

While a Dallas County epidemiologist testified about the possible health risks to customers who may have eaten the contaminated cookies, pastries and bread, the state's main evidence so far consisted of two videotapes of incidents on July 13 and July 24.

In those tapes, a man with his back to the camera is shown scattering something over baked goods in the store while other shoppers pass by. No one reacts to the man on the first tape, but employees eventually detect a strong odor coming from a bread bin and begin to clear out the products and begin cleaning up.

A second tape is similar, except that the store's security manager runs down and detains the man later identified by police as Mr. Nahidmobarekeh. Shortly after the suspect is led away, a young boy reaches up and grabs a cookie from the nearby racks.

"It looked like cracked pepper at the time," Albert Bazan, a Fiesta employee, testified. "But it had a real strong odor ... a foul odor."

Dallas police reports state that a hazardous-material team collected samples of the contaminated goods and that authorities alerted the FBI's terrorism task force.

Testimony in the trial resumes today. If convicted, Mr. Nahidmobarekeh could face up to 20 years in prison.

http://www.reelhorror.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5994

I bet he's an illegal immigrant. Sounds like something an illegal would do.

Haha. Just wait until the odd squad figures out his name is Iranian. They'll be screaming bioterrorism.

The FBI arrested Nahidmobarekeh but turned the case over to local

prosecutors after they determined it was not a national security issue.

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.how...a5f551995fd028e

[Nessa 23]

Gross.

ditto!

[Marilyn. 340]

It called a patrol officer who stopped the defendant in a known drug area after running their patrol car off the road, running a stop sign, and almost hitting an oncoming car. The defendant was found to be carrying a 12" knife with a 7" blade. He claimed to have been carring it for protection. He later admitted that on several occasions he would pull into a gas station at night and not like the "look" of the people there. So he took the knife and hid it in his sleeve while filling up.

The defendant then took the stand after warnings by his attorney not to do so. Although a defendant cannot "address" a jury and can only speak in a QA forum, the defendant often over spoke his attorney and the state attorneys. It was clear that he was arrogant and thought he could talk his way out of jail time. He made many damming statements. He also showed that he lacked a clear view of reality. Here is a short list of some of the things he said:

1. He considered himself to be an "educated" man, despite flunking out of a community college. He was initially here on a student visa. He is not enlightened nor educated.

2. He said that even while on drugs he would never hurt anyone. And now that he was clean he would not hurt anyone. He has clearly forgotten the incident where he ran the police off the road and almost hit an oncoming car.

3. He was the oldest cabby and not getting many "trips". Everyone else was earning more than him. He saw other people with big houses and big mortgages that he could not afford. He seemed resentful about that. Yet he was spending every bit of his earnings on drugs, living "hand to mouth" as it were.

4. He thought people were laughing at him, insulting him, and leaving him out of things. He also heard voices. Paranoia is a common in this type of drug user. He was so paranoid that we doubted whether the "insult" event at the store was real or imagined. Even if it was real, he would have been high, drunk, or both; and probably belligerent.

5. When his cab was in the garage, he could not drive to make drug money and would experience withdrawals. One of the symptoms of withdrawal is diarrhea. He did not have a bathroom close to his room and would defecate on newspapers. During one withdrawal bout after the "insult" at the store, he looked at the feces on the paper and hatched his plan. From the pictures of his room, his bed roll (or maybe sleeping bag) was only inches away from his "bathroom" newspapers.

6. He did this to "scare them good", "get even", "get back at them", "teach them a lesson", and "to insult them".

7. He repeatedly tried to justify his actions, which was obviously his goal on the stand. He admitted to accidentally eating his own feces and it "was not that bad". One night he had been doing drugs and drinking and urinating into bottles (remember no bathroom). He got mixed up and drank from the wrong bottle. Therefore he didn't think it would be "harmful" to anyone.

8. He said, "if I wanted to harm, I am a cabby with access to back of airport ...". At which time the defense quickly and smartly stopped his testimony.

9. The defendant experimented with but did not prefer marijuana. It did not let him "concentrate while driving" like heroine, coke, and crack did. So he could do drugs and drive at the same time. The state pressed him on this point, "So you did drugs while driving?". Defendant: "Yes".

10. The state asked him to demonstrate how he grated the feces. He took 2 evidence bags, one with the feces and one with the grater. He pantomimed the action, said he would dump the grated feces in his hand, cup it, and say to himself "now let me go get even with them". The only time he smiled or smirked on the stand was during this demonstration.

http://iwanttokeepanon.blogspot.com/2005/1...dmobarekeh.html

according to that link it looks like he he got a concurrent 5 year sentence..... but he intended to appeal that decision..

Edited August 10, 2007 by MarilynP

[Queen Jenn 0]

disgusting!!!!!