Combative and seething with contempt, the Newport Beach pot dealer accused of masterminding a gruesome 2012 kidnapping scheme sat on the witness stand last week and tried to convince a jury that he is the innocent victim of lying witnesses and planted DNA.
The Newport Beach courtroom has been filled with spectators throughout the trial, which began in mid-July and marks the climax of a bizarre crime saga involving a grisly mutilation, a law enforcement effort to trick a fugitive out of hiding in a country from which he could not be extradited, and a brazen escape from the Santa Ana jail that left embarrassed jail officials reevaluating security measures.
Nayeri also admitted that he believed the dispensary owner was burying money in the Mojave Desert because tracking devices showed that he was traveling in the area repeatedly.“Nine months of surveillance to kidnap and rob somebody?” Nayeri said. “Never. There’s no reason for it.” He bragged that he knew the business from “A to Z,” raking in more than $1 million a year at times. In the era of medical marijuana spawned by Proposition 215 in 1996, he testified, he sold to pot dispensaries that operated under a nonprofit collective model that was just a facade for bigger, backdoor deals.
She described Nayeri as “extremely intelligent,” but said he could quickly morph into an “angry, crazy, temper-driven, scary” personality.to the Czech Republic, where he was arrested in November 2013 and returned to the United States to face trial in the abduction case.
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