A man charged in connection with a string of sexual assaults allegedly smeared feces on the walls of his jail cell while resisting officers’ attempts to transport him across the street for his initial court appearance on Tuesday.

During the brief hearing, Assistant U.S. Attorney Kristian Weir said that Abdimahat Bille Mohamed “strongly resisted” when Hennepin County Jail staff tried to remove him from his cell ahead of his initial appearance in Minneapolis federal court.

Prosecutors on Thursday charged Mohamed, 28, with kidnapping a 15-year-old girl in 2017 and an adult woman in September. The federal criminal complaint links Mohamed to three other sexual assaults.

Mohamed pleaded guilty in April to state charges of criminal sexual conduct for the rape of the child victim and the sexual

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