The Kansas City man arrested Monday by Oakland police and wanted in Missouri for probation violations in connection with a statutory rape case traveled to Maine by bus to meet an Oakland woman he had met online.

Luqmon Abram, 27, of Kansas City, jumped out of an apartment building window on Church Street in Oakland amid sub-zero temperatures early Monday morning to flee from local police after they responded to a report of an unwanted person.

Oakland police Captain Rick Stubbert said Abram was arrested and charged as a fugitive from justice because he is wanted in Kansas City on charges of rape, sexual assault, criminal possession of a firearm and obstruction. Authorities said Abram, who used many different aliases, was considered armed and dangerous.

Abram told Oakland roommates Erica Duquette, 22, and Mallory Irving, 30, that his name was Lamont Murphy, Duquette said in an interview Wednesday. She said if it wasn’t for her mother calling the police on Monday, she does not know what would have happened.

She and Irving will never be so trusting of anyone they meet online again.

“It’s a lesson learned, right here,” she said.

Stubbert said people should be careful about online communication, because it’s never clear who’s on the other end.

“It could be dangerous, and there are a lot of predators who prey on people that go online,” he said.

Abram was convicted of second-degree statutory rape in a case involving a 15-year-old girl, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol sex offender registry. He was released from prison in May and was to remain on supervised release until May 2017, according to the registry.

Abram is scheduled to appear in Waterville District Court March 3 and is to be extradited back to Kansas City, according to Stubbert.

Mike Mansur, public information officer for the Jackson County prosecutors’ office in Missouri, said in a telephone interview this week that the warrant in connection with the statutory rape case was issued late last year, and no other case information was available.

Stubbert said every state is different when it comes to extradition proceedings, but he expects Abram will not stay in Maine, as he is charged with being a fugitive from justice, a Class D misdemeanor. “Missouri will send somebody up here to grab him,” he said.

District Attorney Maeghan Maloney said Wednesday in an email that the question is whether Abram will waive extradition.

“If he waives, the process is simple. After his court appearance, Missouri police will transport him to their jurisdiction,” Maloney said. “If he does not waive, we will have a hearing. Most people waive. I do not yet know Mr. Abram’s decision.”

‘THIS GUY NEEDS TO GO’

Duquette said Abram took a bus to Maine from Kansas City, arrived in Oakland Saturday, and on Sunday he became intoxicated and belligerent.

Irving, who didn’t want to be interviewed for this article, met him online about two years ago, and they had been video chat “dating” online since Oct. 20, according to Duquette.

“He didn’t tell her nothing about his past or anything,” Duquette said. “He wanted to come up here to Maine. Mallory bought him a bus ticket, and he came to Maine. He got up here last Saturday. It was a two-day trip.”

On Saturday, everything went well, but on Sunday, Abram was drunk and started yelling in the apartment kitchen, Duquette said.

Irving had gone into the bathroom to take a shower. Duquette, who is four months pregnant, her boyfriend and her uncle were in the apartment, and Duquette asked Abram to quiet down, she said.

He refused and went into the bathroom and started yelling at Irving, saying she needed to buy him a ticket back to Kansas City, Duquette said.

“I looked at him and said, ‘No, she don’t need to buy you a bus ticket back,’ and he said, ‘If she can’t buy it, you buy it.’ I was like, I ain’t buying you nothing, so if you want to go back, find your own way back. He was, like, flipping out. My boyfriend had a splitting headache and he was laying down, and (Abram) went over by my bed and starts screaming at everybody and went back to the kitchen, leans against the counter and grabs a big old butcher knife and threatens me and my boyfriend.”

Then Irving, who had come out of the bathroom, pointed an unloaded BB gun at Abram, according to Duquette.

“She pulled that out and that scared him and he dropped the knife. My mom called police because I had texted my Mom. I’m like, ‘Mom, you need to call the police. This guy needs to go, ASAP.'”

Duquette’s mother and sister, who live just down the street, arrived at the apartment, as did police Officer Michael Sayers.

Abram was in Irving’s bedroom and wouldn’t come out, although the officer said he only wanted to talk with him, according to Duquette.

“Next thing I see is the cop running out the front door around the building. (Abram) had jumped out Mallory’s bedroom with one shoe on and one shoe off.”

It was shortly after midnight Monday morning, and the temperature was below zero.

‘KIND OF FISHY’

Sayers called Sgt. David Savage and they both chased Abram, according to Stubbert. Abram was wearing a sweater and sweatpants, Duquette said.

“As the cops were trying to find him, my boyfriend jumped out of Mallory’s window and tried to follow his footprints in the snow, and he kicked the cop in the butt by mistake. My sister was trying to find him, too.”

Police eventually saw Abram walking down the middle of Center Street, and he gave them several false names before Waterville Communications Center dispatcher Ryan Karagiannes discovered his correct identity after doing online research, according to the Oakland police log.

Abram was arrested and charged with being a fugitive from justice and taken by ambulance to Inland Hospital in Waterville as officers thought he may have had frostbite. He was released and taken to Kennebec County jail in Augusta.

“We didn’t know anything about his past until we read the (Morning Sentinel) article online Tuesday,” Duquette said. “If we had known about all this, he wouldn’t have been up here. No way.”

She said Irving was devastated when she learned about Abram’s past.

“He’s been trying to call Mallory from the jail. She couldn’t accept the call because he has no money on the books. Monday he called her twice. He got two free phone calls. He’s like, ‘I’m sorry,’ trying to be sweet to her. Me and my boyfriend were in the car at the time, and it was on speaker phone. We were like, no way he’s staying here. He’s going back to Kansas City.”

Abram told the women he had no criminal history, but they thought it was strange he had Irving put his brother’s name on the bus ticket she bought for him, claiming it was because he (Abram) could not come up with an ID, according to Duquette.

“That was kind of fishy, right there, and then Sunday, when all of this happened, he was in the kitchen and he said, ‘You know, I just got out of the Fed (prison).’ He said he was in the Fed because of drugs and cops,” Duquette said. “That definitely scared us right there.”

Amy Calder — 861-9247

acalder@centralmaine.com

Twitter: @AmyCalder17

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