“We did our job”
The list of criminal justice system partners who have dealt with Adbimahat Bille Mohamed, 28, is long. It includes the Hennepin County Attorney, the Hennepin County Public Defender’s Office, multiple judges on the Hennepin County District Court bench, the 4th Judicial District Court’s Psychological Services, and the Hennepin County Department of Community Corrections Probation Unit. They along with the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission, have all played a role in our criminal justice system’s collective failure to incapacitate Mohamed – a violent offender who should not have been free earlier this fall to commit yet another rape.
That failure has sadly translated into another violent crime, another victim, and another example of a system never having to answer for its failures.
According to court records, Mohamed, just 28 years old, has been known to the criminal justice system for at least 10 years. Between 2017 – 2024 he racked up no fewer than 10 misdemeanor level cases involving driving offenses, disorderly conduct, obstructing the legal process, and possession of a dangerous weapon. In addition, there was an uncharged incident in 2018 that appears to involve a sexual assault. None of these incidents led to a single day of incapacitation from our courts – but these issues are minor by comparison.
In 2017, a 15-year-old girl met a Mohamed on Snapchat and he picked her up from her home in St. Paul. While driving in Minneapolis Mohamed picked up two other men. One of the men had a handgun and threatened to shoot the girl if she didn’t have sex with the men. During the ordeal, Mohamed forced himself on the girl in several ways, sexually assaulting her. The girl was eventually let out of the car in Minneapolis. She reported the rape to Minneapolis Police and evidence was recovered. Mohamed was not identified during that investigation, and he was not located or arrested at the time.
In May of 2024, an adult female reported meeting Mohamed on Snapchat and eventually going with him to an apartment in Minneapolis. While there, Mohamed forcibly raped the woman, threatening to shoot her with a gun he said he had. Another female in the apartment became concerned with what she saw and heard and called police. The victim confirmed to police that Mohamed had raped her and cooperated with the investigation. Mohamed was arrested and transported to the hospital for an exam and collection of evidence from his body. He became physically combative and spit on multiple hospital staff and officers. The Hennepin County Attorney charged Mohamed in custody with two counts of 1st degree criminal sexual conduct (CSC) (the most serious form of rape), two counts of 3rd degree CSC, and two counts of 4th degree assault of police officers.
During the pre-trial phase of the May 2024 rape case, Mohamed’s DNA sample was entered into the DNA database. This test resulted in a match linking Mohamed to the 2017 rape of the 15-year-old girl in Minneapolis. The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office filed additional charges against Mohamed, adding two counts of 1st degree CSC (one involving an accomplice armed with a dangerous weapon), two counts of 2nd degree CSC, and one count of kidnapping to facilitate a felony. The county attorney’s office gave notice to Mohamed and the court that it intended to seek an upward departure from the sentencing guidelines, given the seriousness of the crime.
In December 2024, Mohamed was scheduled to start trial in the May 2024 rape case. Just before the trial was to commence, Mohamed became physically aggressive with his public defender, standing up and saying, “I’ll beat the fuck out of you.” The trial was postponed, and the Hennepin County Attorney was relieved from having to defend Mohamed. The court appointed a private attorney, costing the system $15,000, to represent Mohamed.
In May 2025, the new appointed attorney and the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office agreed to a combined plea agreement on the 2017 and the 2024 cases – both of which had involved the highest-level allegations of CSC. In an unbelievable turn of events, the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office went from intending to seek an upward departure from the sentencing guidelines to agreeing to allow Mohamed to plead guilty in both cases to two counts of 5th degree CSC (the lowest level felony criminal sexual conduct). In addition, the county attorney agreed not to pursue the yet uncharged 2018 case.
This plea agreement ensured that Mohamed would likely not receive prison time. In fact, the sentencing guidelines in a 5th degree CSC call for a “stayed” prison sentence up until the 5th conviction!
The court accepted the plea as it involved the approval of the prosecuting attorney. Instead of facing significant prison time (the sentencing guidelines suggest a presumptive 144-month prison commitment for a single 1st degree CSC conviction with no criminal history), Mohamed was sentenced to 364 days in the county workhouse but was given 364 days credit for jail time already served.
Mohamed was subsequently released from jail, to serve probation time in the community under the watch of the Hennepin County Department of Community Corrections. Among his conditions of release, were to submit to a psychosexual examination from the court, attend a sex offender program, and refrain from using the internet without approval of probation. All proved toothless.
The results
In September 2025, less than four months after being allowed to plead guilty to two violent rapes and then be released, Mohamed was once again using Snapchat to meet women. According to his most recent court complaint, Mohamed met a woman who lived in Mankato and went there to pick her up in his car to go to a resturaunt. Once in the car, Mohamed began driving to the twin cities and told the woman “You’re not going home.” Mohamed then drove the woman to a hotel in Bloomington where he held her against her will and forcibly raped and chocked her, refusing to bring her home.
About a week into the ordeal, they drove into Minneapolis, and the woman forced her way out of the car and hailed a citizen on the sidewalk. Mohamed eventually fled. The woman called police and cooperated with the investigation. DNA recovered from her sexual assault exam matched that of Mohamed. Police located Mohamed in late November and arrested him.
On December 1st, 2025, the Hennepin County Attorney charged Mohamed with one count of 3rd degree CSC, and one count of kidnapping to facilitate a felony. Mohamed remains in the Hennepin County Jail with a bail of $300,000. If convicted, he faces a presumptive commitment of 76 months in prison.
Fox 9 news reached out to the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office for a comment regarding the horribly weak sentence Mohamed received for his previous rapes. A spokesman for the county attorney stated,
“Due to circumstances that cause difficulty in many criminal sexual conduct cases, these charges were the available and appropriate ones to secure a felony conviction.”
Our criminal justice system, one in which we pour hundreds of millions of dollars into, can and must do better.
