Bellaire police say 29-year-old Amar Barkouda has spent the last three days terrorizing this neighborhood, nearly abducting six different young women.
“He would follow them, stop the car, get out and approach and try to engage them just in conversation, and in a couple of cases, the women were able to get away from him. In one case he got very close to one of the victims,” Chief Onesimo Lopez said.
They say Barkouda hit four different spots between Tuesday and Thursday.
The last attacks came just this Friday morning.
Neighborhood surveillance video led to a description of Barkouda and the beige Toyota Camry victims say he was driving ultimately leading police to a traffic stop at this construction site at the intersection of Chimney Rock and Evergreen.
“We dispatched officers into the area and were able to locate the suspect not too far away from where we received the calls. The construction likely slowed him down, which is why we were able to catch him,” said Lopez.
And we’ve learned it’s not Barkouda’s first run-in with police.
As this week’s attacks unfolded, court records reveal he was already out on bond, charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after holding two people hostage with a screwdriver at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center last summer in southwest Houston.
Neighbors say enough is enough.
“It’s a revolving door here in Houston and this is something that needs to be addressed seriously,” Theresa Bosley, a resident said.
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