Oregon police are looking for a torture suspect who allegedly held another woman captive in Nevada.

Salem, Oregon. Southern Oregon police on Thursday were looking for a man accused of torturing a woman he held captive, less than two years after he was convicted in Nevada for holding another woman captive for weeks before the victim managed to escape.

Torture suspect Benjamin Foster in an undated photograph. Grants Pass Police Department (Oregon)

Grants Pass Police Chief Warren Hensman said in a phone interview that he finds it “extremely disturbing” that the perpetrator is wanted for attempted murder and not still behind bars for crimes in Nevada.

Benjamin Obadiah Foster, 36, is currently charged in Oregon with attempted murder, kidnapping and assault. Foster attempted to kill a victim on Grants Pass while “deliberately torturing” her and secretly holding her “in a place where she was unlikely to be found,” Josephine County District Attorney Joshua Eastman wrote in a court document.

“We are focused on catching this man and bringing him to justice,” Hensman said at a press conference on Thursday. “It’s an all-hands-on-deck operation.”

In 2019, before moving to Oregon, Foster held his then-girlfriend captive for two weeks in her Las Vegas apartment. He was initially charged with five felony charges, including assault and battery, and faced several decades in prison after his conviction. But in August 2021, Foster struck a deal with the Clark County Attorney’s Office that allowed him to plead guilty to one count of felony battery and one count of misdemeanor domestic violence.

The judge sentenced him to two and a half years in a Nevada prison, but after the 729 days he spent in jail awaiting trial were factored into his sentence, Foster had fewer than 200 additional days to serve in state custody.

According to a Las Vegas police report obtained by the Associated Press, Foster’s girlfriend suffered seven broken ribs at the time, two black eyes, and injuries from having her wrists and ankles tied with zip ties and duct tape during her two-week captivity.

The woman also told police that she was forced to eat lye and suffocated into unconsciousness.

She escaped during a trip with Foster to the grocery store and gas station after Foster lost sight of the woman. According to the police report, the woman ran to a nearby apartment building and found a resident who took her to the hospital. Later that day, Foster was arrested by SWAT officers.

At the time, court records show Foster was released from custody and given a suspended prison sentence for carrying a concealed weapon without a permit.

He was also awaiting trial in another 2018 domestic violence case. But Foster’s 2021 plea deal with prosecutors settled the domestic violence case, a copy of the agreement shows, and he was “sentenced to a time-served loan.”

Police in Grants Pass, a city of about 40,000 people in southwestern Oregon, provided fresh photos. in the newscast Foster and the Nissan Sentra he was driving. They said he was believed to be armed and “considered extremely dangerous.”

“We are using all available technology to find this person,” said Hensman, the police chief. And I’ll leave it at that.

On Tuesday, police went to a house in the Grants Pass residential area to investigate the attack, although Hensman did not yet want to discuss how the cops were alerted.

When they arrived, the officers found the unconscious woman bound and beaten. According to police, she was taken to the hospital in critical condition.

“This is a very serious event, a brutal attack on one of our residents, which we take very seriously,” the police chief added. “And we won’t rest until we catch this man.”

Hensman said he didn’t have time now to find out how the Nevada authorities handled Foster’s crimes.

“Whatever happened in the past,” he said, “we can talk about these situations later.”

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