On Wednesday, May 21, 2025, at approximately 6:45 p.m., Officers from the New Castle County Division of Police responded to a residence for a reported kidnapping.
Upon arrival, Officers contacted the victim, who reported that earlier that day, at approximately 7:00 a.m., he was kidnapped at gunpoint outside a residence in the 200 block of Lindbergh Avenue in Wilmington. The suspect, later identified as 49-year-old Khar Abdulah of Philadelphia, PA, forced the victim into his Audi SUV. Once inside the vehicle, Abdulah bound the victim’s legs and placed him in handcuffs.
Throughout the incident, Abdulah repeatedly threatened the victim and his family, demanding money. For fear of their safety, the victim contacted multiple family members to collect money, which was ultimately handed over to Abdulah. Abdulah also forced the victim to transfer ownership of his Acura sedan into Abdulah’s name.
The victim was later released by Abdulah and immediately called 911 to report the incident.
Detectives from the Criminal Investigations Unit were notified and assumed control of the investigation.
While investigating this incident, Detectives also continued their work on a burglary that occurred earlier on Sunday, April 27, 2025, in the unit block of Granbury Drive, New Castle. During the burglary, a suspect dressed in an Amazon vest forcibly entered the victim’s home and stole property. It is important to note that he was not an Amazon employee.
Detectives later identified Khar Abdulah as the suspect in both cases.
Khar Abdulah was also wanted by the New Castle County Police Department in connection with a November 2024 incident, during which he was identified as a suspect in a drug investigation on Commonwealth Boulevard in the Overlook Colony neighborhood of Claymont. During that incident, Abdulah, who was driving a Jeep Grand Cherokee, fled from Officers during a traffic stop. Investigating officers later obtained a warrant for his arrest, but attempts to locate him at that time were unsuccessful.
On May 29, 2025, the Delaware State Police opened an investigation following a late-reported attempted robbery at the PNC Bank, located in the 1700 block of Marsh Road. Working collaboratively, Detectives from both agencies identified Khar Abdulah as the suspect in both cases.
With assistance from the Philadelphia Police Department, the U.S. Marshals Task Force, and the FBI Safe Streets Violent Crime Task Force, Abdulah was arrested in Philadelphia on July 2, 2025, and extradited to Delaware on Thursday, July 17, 2025. Khar Abdulah was charged with the following offenses as a result of the New Castle County Police Department investigation:
- Two felony counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.
- Two felony counts of attempted possession with the intent to deliver a controlled substance
- One felony count of robbery first degree.
- One felony count of kidnapping first degree.
- One felony count of possession of a firearm if previously convicted.
- One felony count of burglary second degree.
- One felony count of conspiracy second degree.
- One felony count of criminal impersonation of a police officer.
- One felony count of aggravated menacing.
- One felony count of extortion caused physical injury to anyone.
- One felony count of wearing a disguise during the commission of a felony.
- One felony count of disregarding a police officer’s signal.
- One misdemeanor count of terroristic threatening
- One misdemeanor count of theft under $1500.00
- One violation of unreasonable speed.
- One violation of a traffic control device designates a lane
Khar Abdulah was arraigned at the Justice of the Peace Court 2 and committed to the Howard R. Young Correctional Institution after failing to pay $239,000.00 in cash bail and $41,002.00 in secured bail.
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