Qays Mahjoob

"*Aaaa-AAAAHH! AHHH! AHHH-agagagagagagag!*"
―Qays convulsing while he is tazed.
**Qays "Matt" Mahjoob** was a suspected predator involved in the Long Beach, California edition of **To Catch a Predator**. He is best known for his paranoia and being tasered by the police.

## Biography

In August 2006, Mahjoob, who also went by the nickname "Matt", was 24 years old at the time when he started chatting with “Willow”, a girl he believed to be 13 years old. He talks to the decoy about fast food at first, then slowy transitions to more graphic conversations. He talked about his obsession with Filipino women and his ambition to learn Tagalog. Mahjoob then told the decoy he would perform oral sex on her, questioned about her ability to perform oral sex, asked if she was shaved, expressed his desire for doggy-style sex and jacuzzi sex, and wanted to lick her breasts and buttocks.

The ride to the sting house was relatively short for Mahjoob as he only lived 10 minutes away from it. As Mahjoob walks towards the sting house and is waved by the decoy, he hears her walkie-talkie go off. He stops dead in his tracks and quickly rushes back to his car. He then calls the decoy, saying he is paranoid about hearing a walkie talkie, seeing an old guy in the back yard of the sting house, "a white shirt" and detecting an undercover unit pursuing him. His paranoia, however, is put aside by his desire to rape a child, and he enters the home anyway. As Mahjoob walks into the house, he requests a tour from the decoy. She brings him to the patio where he is greeted by Chris Hansen. Mahjoob immediately flees from the house and runs into the Long Beach police officers. The officers order him to put his hands in the air, but he refuses to obey them. As a result, he is tasered by one of the officers, causing him to scream and fall to the ground. He is then taken into custody.

## Behind the scenes

Mahjoob ended up pleading guilty to one count of Lewd or Lascivious Acts with a Child Under 14 Years of Age. Even though he avoided jail time, in March 2007, he received a sentence of three years probation, 60 days of CalTrans cleanup, and lifetime registration as a sex offender. He finished his sentence in 2010 and is still listed as a sex offender in California.

On April 4, 2013, a mother and her daughter had spent the day at Disneyland. The two returned to their car and left Anaheim around midnight. An hour later, at around 1 a.m. on April 5, 2013, while at a traffic signal that was red near her residence, the woman came to a stop. She then noticed a car which Mahjoob was driving coming up towards her on the opposite side of the road. Mahjoob's vehicle struck her car head-on while its headlights were on, sending it spinning out of the turn lane and off to the side of the road, inflating the driver's side airbag. The mother and daughter suffered severe injuries in the collision and were rushed to U.C. Irvine Medical Center by paramedics. Doctors performed surgery on the mother's foot. The daughter required back surgery after having emergency stomach surgery. Mahjoob suffered injuries to his head and left hip. Majoob was a little disoriented and smelled of alcohol when paramedics arrived on the scene. He was taken to the Western Medical Center where tests on his blood and urine showed he had a BAC of 0.22, over three times the legal limit in California.

He was imprisoned for 159 days before being let out. Mahjoob was found guilty of two felonies related to DUI and given a 15-year prison term, of which four years were served for the injury he caused to each victim and seven years for his prior conviction in the Long Beach sting. In April 2016, he filed an appeal with the California Court of Appeals regarding his conviction, claiming the medical staff had breached his civil rights by not adequately sanitizing their catheters and needles, the BAC tests were erroneous, and his previous conviction should not have been taken into account. His verdict and sentence were fully upheld. He is currently incarcerated at the Avenal State Prison, and is eligible for parole in 2025. If Mahjoob commits one more serious felony after he is released, he faces a mandatory sentence of 25 years to life in prison because of the three-strike law in California.

## Trivia

* Mahjoob is the second predator to be tazed by the police, the first being Marvin Harrison Smith II from the Fortson, Georgia episode.
* Dani Miura would later state in an interview that Mahjoob urinated on himself after being tazed, and that the sound of him doing so was picked up by Dateline's audio equipment.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2021/05/drunk-driver-predator-sentenced-to-15.html
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=longbeachdude19
3. ↑ https://meganslaw.ca.gov/OffenderDisplay.aspx?searchby=offender&ID=39307073L2001&NSOPRFlag=True&x=25f27bd7-9630-4c8a-a58f-af68bc8704cb
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 https://casetext.com/case/people-v-mahjoob
5. ↑ https://www.inmateaid.com/inmate-profiles/qays-mahjoob
6. ↑ https://m.youtube.com/watch?time\_continue=54&v=AUnzR1XrOEY&feature=emb\_title