Boise parole officer was charged with extortion, fled the nation. Now IDOC may very well be sued

The girlfriend of an Idaho man has accused the state’s jail and parole businesses of failing to “correctly prepare, supervise and oversee” her boyfriend’s probation officer who requested her to ship him an “express video” on Valentine’s Day, in keeping with a tort declare.

The declare, which was obtained by the Idaho Statesman via the general public data course of, was filed in opposition to the Idaho Division of Correction, Probation and Parole District 4, Ada County and the Prosecutor’s Workplace. Plaintiffs are required to file tort claims, notifying of their intent to sue an company, earlier than probably submitting a lawsuit.

The 2-page declare, filed by Boise-based legal professional Justin Volle, alleged that IDOC Probation and Parole Officer Saif Sabah Hasan Al Anbagi — who is already facing criminal charges — contacted the lady by telephone in February asking for assist “making a choice” about her boyfriend’s drug use.

Al Anbagi instructed the lady that her boyfriend, whom Al Anbagi was supervising on probation, was utilizing unlawful substances and receiving express movies, the criticism mentioned. Al Anbagi instructed her he noticed a “pornographic video” on the person’s telephone that was despatched in January, in keeping with the criticism.

When the lady admitted it was her within the video, Al Anbagi requested her to ship him the video so he might “affirm” she was the lady within the video, including that if she did, he’d “assist” her boyfriend “out” by not giving him a violation for utilizing unlawful substances, in keeping with the criticism.

The lady additionally instructed Al Anbagi that her boyfriend “was not utilizing medicine,” the criticism mentioned. At this time, she nonetheless offers with PTSD and several other types of nervousness due to Al Anbagi’s actions, the criticism mentioned, including that her emotional damages quantity to not less than $50,000. The Statesman sometimes doesn’t determine survivors of alleged sexual crimes and isn’t naming the lady who filed the criticism.

“The Idaho Division of Correction, the state of Idaho and the Ada County Prosecutor’s Workplace didn’t correctly prepare, supervise and oversee Probation Officer Saif Sabah Hasan Al Anbagi, which immediately and proximately led to (the lady’s) accidents, hurt and damages,” Volle wrote within the criticism.

Al Anbagi wasn’t named as a defendant within the tort declare. He labored within the IDOC’s Probation and Parole District 4, which encompasses the identical space that makes up the 4th Judicial District. The district offers with any legal or civil circumstances in Ada, Boise, Elmore and Valley counties. Al Anbagi in February was charged with extortion and accused by the Ada County Prosecutor’s Workplace of pressuring the ladies to ship “compromising” movies and photographs of herself.

Al Anbagi, who beforehand labored as a probation officer for seven years, was positioned on unpaid depart on Feb. 16 and resigned 5 days later, IDOC spokesperson Sanda Kuzeta-Cerimagic instructed the Statesman by e mail.

Kuzeta-Cerimagic declined to remark, citing the continuing litigation. Clear River Authorized, the place Volle works, didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

Al Anbagi going through felony costs for incident

The declare comes months after Al Anbagi was charged with felony grand theft. Prosecutors mentioned he extorted the lady by asking her to ship “compromising” photographs and video, according to the Ada County Prosecutor’s Office.

If she didn’t cooperate, the lady mentioned Al Anbagi would violate her boyfriend’s probation, the Prosecutor’s Workplace mentioned, main her to really feel like she didn’t have a alternative, provided that she was additionally below court docket supervision.

“The defendant used his place of belief and authority to extort the sufferer,” Shawn Kelley, a authorized intern for the Prosecutor’s Workplace, mentioned in February.

Al Anbagi has since fled the country after posting his $150,000 bond.

“I used to be suggested by the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace that this defendant acquired on a aircraft to Iraq a couple of days in the past,” Ada County Deputy Prosecutor Delaney Peugh mentioned at a March listening to. “So I do imagine it is a failure to seem and that he doesn’t plan on showing.”

Prosecutors introduced on the listening to that after charging Al Anbagi not less than 10 extra doable victims got here ahead, Peugh mentioned, main her to imagine he fled in “anticipation of further costs.”

Al Anbagi’s then-private legal professional mentioned on the time that he “sees the problems in another way.”

“He wasn’t required to remain within the nation, he would possibly simply be over there visiting,” Jeffery McKinnie mentioned. “I feel we’re leaping to conclusions to imagine he’s not coming again.” McKinnie didn’t instantly return a telephone name looking for further info Tuesday.

4 months later, Al Anbagi hasn’t been discovered, and on-line court docket data present that the nationwide warrant issued for his arrest continues to be energetic.

“We wouldn’t have additional remark we will present about his legal case at the moment,” Emily Lowe, a spokesperson for the Prosecutor’s Workplace, mentioned in an e mail.