A Brothers Keepers gangster and murder suspect who spent almost three years in a Washington state prison has been released, but handed over to U.S. immigration officials.
Naseem (Little Man) Mohammed, 27, who used the alias Mobert Ahmad in the U.S., pleaded guilty to armed robbery in April 2022 after pulling a gun on two strangers in a Seattle-area hookah lounge several months earlier.
He was sentenced to 41 months in jail and was eligible for release from custody on Monday.
Chris Wright, communications director for Washington Department of Corrections, confirmed in an email that Mohammed “did have an Immigrations and Custom Enforcement detainer.”
“The feds would hand him over to Canadian authorities,” Wright said.
No one from the RCMP’s B.C. headquarters responded to requests for information on Monday.
U.S. court documents described the Surrey man as the primary suspect in “multiple” gangland slayings in two Canadian provinces, though he is not currently charged in any murders.
He does have outstanding charges in Ontario, dating back to 2019, of unlawful confinement, assault, pointing a firearm, uttering death threats, theft and robbery.
While on bail on those charges and staying at his parents’ Surrey home, Mohammed slipped away from police doing a curfew check.
He was caught with three other men after crossing the border into Montana on Jan. 23, 2021. He told U.S. authorities he was an American named Bati Ahmed, although had no identification on him. They checked his fingerprints in their databases but found no match, so let him go.
They later learned from Canadian authorities that he was wanted on this side of the border. A U.S. Federal Court affidavit filed in February 2021 by border patrol agent Seth Justesen said Mohammed is “a high-ranking member of the Brothers Keepers gang in Surrey, British Columbia.”
“Canadian authorities have advised that Mohammed is the primary suspect in multiple gang-related homicides spanning two provinces,” Justesen’s affidavit also said, though the document provided no details about the killings allegedly committed by Mohammed.
He then turned up at the Empire Hookah Lounge on Nov. 8, 2021, where he threatened two men with a Glock handgun if they didn’t hand over their jewelry, according to his plea deal.
While Mohammed was in jail, his older brother Sameh was shot to death in Brampton in September 2022. At the time, Sgt. Brenda Winpenny of B.C.’s Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit said the elder Brothers Keeper had fled to Ontario because of threats against him in B.C.
“He is an individual with a well-documented history of being involved in the local gang landscape,” she said of Sameh. “Unfortunately, as we have seen far too many times, they cannot hide from their past, resulting in tragic consequences.”
Naseem Mohammed, who raps under the name Wlatt, has released new music on his Instagram account while in jail. And in March 2023, he also had a post that said “comin home soon freeme and stop prayin on my downfall Bitchass.”
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