A Federal Way woman was sentenced to a year in prison for multiple crimes, including one in 2021, where she and a man robbed a car from an Auburn car dealership during a test drive.
On Sept. 26, Teresa Marie Subdeck, 35, of Federal Way, was sentenced to 11 and a quarter months in King County Jail for second-degree attempted robbery and first-degree attempted theft. Subdeck was initially charged with one count of first-degree robbery, but following a plea agreement, her charge was amended.
Th sentence stems from a Sept. 13, 2021, incident in which, according to court documents, she and Husein Abdi-Samed Mohamed, 35, of Renton, were riding in a BMW X5 from Worldwide Auto Sales, 711 Auburn Way North, during a test drive.
During the test drive, Subdeck, who was pregnant, said she had to vomit and asked the car dealership employee to pull over, according to documents. The employee pulled over, Subdeck pepper-sprayed the employee, and Mohamed punched the employee before telling him to get out or else he’d get a gun.
Documents state that Mohamed, who was sentenced in 2023, was initially charged with two counts of first-degree robbery — with one charge stemming from an armed test-drive robbery about a month earlier. Then, in a plea agreement, his charges were amended to two counts of second-degree robbery. On May 19, 2023, Mohamed was sentenced to 63 months — a little over five years — on each count, but those sentences were to run at the same time.
In addition to her 11 and a quarter-month sentence, Subdeck was also sentenced to one year in King County Jail for a separate possession of a stolen vehicle charge. That one-year sentence will run at the same time as her first sentence. The possession of a stolen vehicle charge stems from an Aug. 18, 2021, incident when an officer found Subdeck in a stolen 2020 Dodge Durango that was taken four days prior in an armed carjacking.
Details of the Auburn car dealership incident
On Sept. 13, 2021, at about 2:52 p.m., detectives arrived at Worldwide Auto Sales and were advised of an employee who was assaulted during a test drive, and the vehicle was subsequently stolen. Documents state that the employee said that he first saw the suspects, who were later identified as Subdeck and Mohamed, when they had come in earlier in the day, left, but then returned.
The employee said that Subdeck and Mohamed said that they wanted to take a BMW X5 for a test drive, and he subsequently took them. According to documents, the employee drove, while Subdeck and Mohamed were passengers.
Documents state that after traveling north on State Route 167 from State Route 18, Subdeck, who was pregnant, complained of being nauseous and asked the employee to pull over. Subdeck subsequently went to the driver’s side door and sprayed the employee in the face with pepper spray.
According to documents, Mohamed then told the employee to get out of the car and punched him in the left eye, leaving a mark. The employee eventually got out of the car after Mohamed told him that if he did not, he would get a gun.
Documents state that Subdeck and Mohamed drove back to Worldwide Auto Sales, and then drove off with the BMW X5 and the car they arrived in. The employee was located by a Washington State Patrol trooper on the side of the highway and was taken back to the car dealership.
Subdeck and Mohamed had left fingerprints on vehicles at the car dealership, and they were seen on video camera at the dealership, confirming their involvement. According to documents, on Sept. 21, 2021, police received a call that Subdeck and Mohamed were at a Red Lion hotel in Des Moines, and police subsequently pulled over Subdeck after they left the hotel.
Documents state that when the car was pulled over, a male got out of the passenger seat and left the scene on foot. Subdeck said the man was not Mohamed, but another passenger said that it was. Subdeck was subsequently arrested.
