Hossein Nayeri

In an Orange County courtroom Friday, Hossein Nayeri was given several life sentences for horrific acts of torture. Vikki Vargas reports for the NBC4 News on Friday, Oct. 30, 2020.

A Newport Beach pot dealer who gained fame by staging a daring escape from the Orange County jail while awaiting trial is scheduled to be sentenced Friday for kidnapping and torturing a marijuana dispensary owner who was mutilated in the Mojave Desert.

Hossein Nayeri was convicted in connection with a gruesome torture and kidnapping case. Vikki Vargas reports for the NBC4 News at 11 a.m. on Friday Aug. 16, 2019

A man was convicted Friday in a grisly case of kidnapping and torture that came to light after a deputy’s mysterious encounter seven years ago with a frightened woman pleading for help in the Mojave Desert northeast of Los Angeles.

Testimony continued in the trial of Hossein Nayeri, who is charged in the abduction of a marijuana dispensary owner and a woman from Newport Beach who were later found in the Mojave Desert. This report appeared on the NBC4 News on Monday, July 29, 2019.

A former pot grower and two of his high school friends kidnapped and tortured the owner of a flourishing medical marijuana dispensary before cutting off his penis after demanding he tell them where he buried $1 million in the Mojave Desert, prosecutors said Wednesday.

A 43-year-old Westminster man pleaded guilty Thursday and was immediately sentenced to 40 hours of community service for helping three inmates who escaped from an Orange County jail in January 2016.

A convicted pot grower was sentenced to four life sentences without the possibility of parole Friday in the grisly kidnapping, torture and maiming of the owner of a flourishing marijuana collective who was targeted because he and two others thought the victim buried $1 million in the Mojave Desert.

This is the third in a six-part series. A marijuana dispensary owner and his roommate are abducted in the middle of the night at gunpoint from their Newport Beach home by three masked men. Driven to the Mojave Desert while the man was tortured, the disturbing events of that night became known as one of Orange County’s most horrific...

A marijuana dispensary owner and his roommate are abducted in the middle of the night at gunpoint from their Newport Beach home by three masked men. Driven to the Mojave Desert while the man was tortured, the disturbing events of the next few hours would haunt them both forever.

“Adam” Hossein Nayeri is held in a two-man cell. He is alone, 23 hours a day. The 38-year old inmate is facing life behind bars. He is accused of both mayem and torture of a marijuana dispensary owner in 2012 and with a breakout in 2016 that put Orange County on edge.

A marijuana dispensary owner and his roommate are abducted in the middle of the night at gunpoint from their Newport Beach home by three masked men. Driven to the Mojave Desert while the man was tortured, the disturbing events of the next few hours would haunt them both forever.

A convicted pot grower was found guilty on Thursday in the grisly kidnapping, torture and maiming of the owner of a flourishing marijuana collective who was targeted because he and two others thought the victim buried $1 million in the Mojave Desert.

A man accused of kidnapping and torture faces life in prison. Vikki Vargas reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018.

A former pot grower, his “psycho” friend and a third suspect kidnapped the owner of a flourishing marijuana collective and tortured him, demanding he tell them where he buried $1 million in the Mojave Desert, prosecutors said Wednesday.

The taxi driver allegedly kidnapped by three inmates who escaped an Orange County Jail last year was angered Wednesday by a cellphone video that questions his ordeal.

A man who aided three inmates in a daring Orange County Jail breakout early last year pleaded guilty Thursday and was immediately sentenced to a year in jail.

A judge on Wednesday ruled three Southern California inmates can stand trial on charges of making a brazen escape from jail before leading authorities on a weeklong manhunt.

A San Francisco homeless man received his $100,000 reward on Thursday after he helped police capture three escaped inmates.

A $150,000 reward for the capture of two inmates who escaped a Southern California prison in January will be divided among four people, including two Target employees and a homeless man, the Orange County Board of Supervisors decided Tuesday.