He preached the good word on Sunday mornings, but in
the nights hunting escorts at Montgomery County hotels. He also specialized in
using the website to broker prostitution deals with women.
Gabriel Omogbo, 33, of Hyattsville, is charged with a slew of
criminal counts, including attempted first degree murder, armed robbery, first
degree assault and reckless endangerment.
Attacks one and two happened at the Best Western Plus
along W. Montgomery Avenue in Rockville. There Omogbo allegedly raped and
robbed two call girls he had met online. Attack number three took place at the
Radisson Hotel along Research Court in Rockville, near Shady Grove Adventist
Hospital.
Investigators say Omogbo met an escort in a third
floor hotel room shortly after midnight. Following a round of consensual sex,
the 33-year-old emerged from the bathroom holding a kitchen knife. Omogbo
ordered the woman to strip naked and then reportedly said, "You are going
to die today."
Omogbo went on to beat the woman's face, cut her arms,
legs and hands and stole her iPad, pre-paid T-Mobile cell phone and $300.
However before fleeing, he told the woman to wash up, and then handed her a cup
of cold water to drink. The escort survived the onslaught and called 911.
Forensic technicians collected DNA evidence from each
of the hotel rooms where the incidents occurred. Meanwhile detectives began to
tedious task of crosschecking the phone number Omogbo used to communicate with
the escorts via local pawn records. They got a hit.
Surveillance cameras at the Best Western and Radisson
also captured a man around 6 feet, 180 pounds wearing Gucci blue jeans and
brown loafers arriving and departing the hotels around the times of the
attacks. The man is undoubtedly Omogbo, police say.
Omogbo’s Photos show him dressed in a white garment (Sutana)
robe preaching from a pulpit as congregants (mostly females) listen
attentively. In a Facebook post from June of this year, Omogbo wrote, "I
can't but give glory to God for using me for his glory... Lord u [sic] are all
to be praised."
Up until his arrest, Omogbo, a former Bowie State
University student, is a preacher/prophet at the Celestial Church of Christ in Riverdale
and was living with his parents in an apartment along the 2600 block of
Kirkwood Place in Hyattsville
"Oh I'm scared," said Jackline Fuentes, who lives
floor doors down. "Almost every Saturday all the [young] girls are running
around here. We let them go outside by themselves. He could have done anything
to [the kids] or any of us, it's terrible."
Investigators have not divulged any potential motives.
Omogbo, who will next appear in Montgomery County District Court on January 8,
2016 at 10 a.m., faces life imprisonment. He is currently behind bars at the
Montgomery County Correctional Facility on a no-bond status.
1 comment:
I wonder what his members have to say to all these episodes. What a disgrace to this sect in the metropolitan area. The white robe pastor in disguise.
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