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Chowdhury was convicted on three federal kidnapping counts in Queens.
On Thursday, a federal jury in Brooklyn convicted Abu Chowdhury, 36, of Jamaica, Queens, of three kidnapping counts and three conspiracy counts for abductions in Long Island City, Jackson Heights, and Jamaica over about six weeks in 2023. Sentencing has not been imposed.
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer ·
A jury conviction is a finding of guilt on the counts the jury decided. It is not the sentence. On Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, a federal jury in the Eastern District of New York found Abu Chowdhury, 36, of Jamaica, Queens, guilty of three counts of kidnapping and three counts of conspiring to kidnap three men in Long Island City, Jackson Heights, and Jamaica between March 27 and mid-May 2023. Each count carries up to life when the court sentences him, and a statutory maximum is not a term imposed.
QNS reported the Brooklyn verdict. The counts cover three men taken in Long Island City, Jackson Heights, and Jamaica across about six weeks in 2023, from March 27 to mid-May. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York and FBI New York described the abductions as brutal assaults. That is the government's account of what the jury decided. The prison term is still ahead.
Iffat Lubna, Chowdhury's wife, was convicted April 9 in two of the kidnappings. Syed Rubel Ahmed and Sultana Razia were convicted June 26 in the first kidnapping. Each of them also faces up to life when sentenced. An earlier co-defendant verdict is that person's judgment on those counts. It is not Chowdhury's sentence. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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