
Las Vegas PD via AP
Mazen Alotaibi, 23, faces charges including kidnapping, sexual assault with a minor and felony coercion.
A sergeant in Saudi Arabia's air force was jailed in Las Vegas on charges that he pulled a boy into a hotel room and sexually assaulted him the morning of New Year's Eve.
Mazen Alotaibi, 23, faces charges including kidnapping, sexual assault with a minor and felony coercion that could get him decades in state prison, according to police and charging documents obtained Friday.
The boy, who is younger than 14, told police the man forced him into a room at the Circus Circus hotel on the Las Vegas Strip and raped him. Police arrested Alotaibi after being called to the hotel before 9:30 a.m. Dec. 31.
"There was a kidnapping and sexual assault with force," Las Vegas police Lt. Dan McGrath said. "The victim said he was forced into the room and sexually assaulted. We have a strong case based on the evidence."
The boy, who lives out of state, was staying at the hotel with his family, McGrath said. He was taken to a hospital for medical treatment and evidence collection and released later to family members. His name was not made public.
McGrath said Alotaibi produced a Saudi Arabian military identification and said he was stationed at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland near San Antonio, Texas. U.S. federal authorities and Saudi military officials were notified, the police lieutenant said.
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Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland spokesman Brent Boller told The Associated Press that records showed Alotaibi is currently stationed at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Miss. Boller said he could not immediately verify if Alotaibi had been at Lackland, but noted that international military students attend a Defense Language Institute English Language Center on the base to improve their English-language skills.
Alotaibi's lawyer, Don Chairez of Newport Beach, Calif., said Friday he had been in contact with U.S. military authorities at both air force bases and with the Saudi government. He said Alotaibi had come to Las Vegas for the New Year's celebration and will plead not guilty.
Alotaibi also is charged with burglary, which in Nevada can stem from a person entering a building with intent to commit a felony.
The alleged attack took place on the sixth floor of a 15-story hotel tower. Circus Circus has a total of 3,767 guest rooms in three towers and five three-story motor lodge-style buildings dubbed Circus Circus Manor.
The arrest was first reported by the Las Vegas Review-Journal. It cited a police report saying the boy was 13.
Alotaibi was being held without bail at the Clark County jail pending an evidence hearing Jan. 17.
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why are we still training the saudis, if in fact they do not want the ameriacan military in there country. Kick them all out and quit financially supporting them.
Sorry for the bad news, but actually they are financially supporting "us".
Or to be more accurate they are financially supporting those that control us.
Hey! What happened to "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas"? I bet Barry O and the rest of the ass-kissing "diplomats" apologize to the Sheiks, release this sick prick, and send mucho $'s to the sand-n-words so the "black-gold" keeps-a-flowin'
USA must invade Kingdom of Saudia Arabia.
Haha haven't you heard, Saudi Arabia was created by the USA in partnership with the UK. In other words why in the hell will we invade a place that is completely owned by us ?
death to all homos.
Homo's and hetero's commit crimes. Refine your statement.
You have to ignore idiots!
I have dealt with Saudi's both in the military and as a civilian in their country. I can say with certainty that what he did in Vegas would not be a "crime" in Saudi Arabia. Their whole way of thinking and living is so different than ours it's unbelieveable.
I don't condone what he did, he is in our country and is subject to our rules. They don't teach that...
IMHO, it's the House of Saud that is the root of terrorism.
You have to have dealt with them one on one to really understand just how different they think.
Culturally, the western world and the Islamic world differ greatly...whereby, we can love our beer, dogs and barbeque pork while they consider them evil or very undesirable and can have strict laws against them.
Also, women and children may not have the rights and protection in Islamic countries that they have in the western world...they can be treated as chattel...you have read about honor killings of women...some Islamics have done this in the USA as well...to their wives and daughters!
All governments need to have a cultural/legal information sharing/training program for travelers/workers between foreign countries to ensure that these people understand the customs & laws of those countries they are to be traveling or working in to avoid problems!
Forcing anyone to do anything against their will is assault period...no matter what culture, country or religion...bullying children is worse...laws must be fair for all and our business trade and defense relationships with foreign countries should be predicated on these facts!
Honor killing predates Islam and is not Islamic law. How-ever it even happens in the US when a cop finds his best friend sleeping with his wife etc... But when a Christian commits a crime you and your media never focus on their religion, but dare a person with a Islamic name (who might hate Islam more than you) do anything bad and you hypocrites want to go genocidal ! When you compare the Western Christian World to the Islamic East you will find that the west has by far overwhelmed this world with violence ! Even in recent history more so called "Christians" have murdered muslims, then muslims have murdered Christians by exponential levels ! Women and children are safer in the Islamic nations then they are in the west if you simply stop bombing the hell out of them !
USA provides billions each year to Japan for free military protection. Whenever a USA serviceman commits a crime in Japan the USA is quick to formally apologize, compensate the victim, etc.
I wonder if Uncle Stupid (the world's biggest debtor and a economic has-been) will demand an apology from Arabia? Of course we all know the answer to this question.
Export this guy to be punished. He might not get off as easy as he will here.
How long before they start screaming "immunity" for this guy?! He more than likely has royal blood in him somewhere somehow.
Given that most of the men who commit these crimes are not outwardly Gay, I have to ask, do they consider themselves homosexuals, or just heterosexuals with an odd hobby?
Either way, Mazen Alotaibi, will probably experience what it is like to be on the other side of a rape in prison. I hope they put him in a maximum security facility, and I hope that he is an old man when he gets out.
If he is a Saudi Pilot he is related to the king. In any case he will be shipped home with diplomatic immunity and the boys family will get a big check from the Saudi's. Welcome to the real world. The US is for sale. It is not liberty and JUSTICE for all. Muslims are pigs!
This is a common occurrence in the Arab Middle East. Thursday nights are when all the men get together to have sex with the boys, and it is a known fact that the mainstream media conveniently chooses to ignore. It happens. It is documented. Arabs from the Middle East consider it normal. What else do you need to know to help you decide why we need not befriend these stone age creatures? I'm surprised Westboro Baptist Church doesn't send a 'mission trip' to Saudi Arabia to 'convert' all these perverted heathens.
Watch a documentary called "The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan" and you will get some insight into the male/male sex that is common and part of most Middle East countries cultures. Its not a religious dogma but rather stems from their interpretation of their religion regarding women and that they see nothing wrong with the exploitation of boys for men's sexual gratification.
Most religions have someone somewhere, usually men, that interpret it as they wish. There's cutting off of young girls genitals and sewn crudly shut so they can be "saved" for marriage, boys used as sex objects, priests that molest, women stoned to death because they went out in public without a male escort, girls barely teens forced into marriage and forced to bear children that cause fistulas, arranged marriages in which only the female is expected to be faithful and follow specific "rules", females that cannot divorce an abusive spouse but are instead killed, honor killings of women for giving birth to the "wrong" sex child or doing anything on a long list of "offenses", and on and on and on.
American servicemen have been raping local girls (and some boys, too) in foreign lands for decades. Ask the Okinawans how they feel about US Marines and Airmen in their country. I know that many of you can't pass up any chance to Muslim bash, but you are only proving your stupidity.
You know he was there to buy stolen info on the Hypersonic ,don't you? Inland Empire ,Ca police have an International Criminal court case pending against them for conspiracy in terrorist kidnapping-in particular but not limited to the kidnapping of a 14 yr old Wright Brothers heiress right after we were ruled internationally as the legal owners of all of Orville and Wilbur and our Blueprints,products ,including Bell phones,hydraulics-we had UN and CIA vehicles w/Black Boxes all over the place w/evidence for ICC aand the cops beat up High Intel. and took the D.O.T. Wright UN Vehicles to a Iranian Terrorist that owns a Tow Yard in Redlands,Ca-my vehicle had notes on the Hypersonic programing and UNICEF diaries-ICC owns our diaries,official counts of crimes against humanity. Wright games makes computer chip for slots .
As women attempt to hijack rape and continue the non-stop attack on men and boys, it's a fact that men in the USA are raped more than women, this is just another case of it.
Saudi Military in TX? The GOP/Saudi Muslim Brotherhood is as strong as ever - thanks G.W. Bush!
Bush had nothing to do with it.
It was inplace far before him.
Know what you speak of when you speak.
And he was not in TX, he was at KAFB MS.
There is a training exchange there.
He was lying about the Lackland thing to cover his perverted ass.
I worked at Keesler AFB for years as a Hurricane Hunter.
These people come here all the time for training and English skills.
They have even built special prayer rooms for them.
I really don't like it, but it is a fact.
This guy was "Perhaps" a bad apple.
But I do know that Saudi men have a tendency to like young boys.
I hope he rots in prison.
Why the hell is this #@!#%^$%#@# even in our country?? It seems to me that these perverted saudis like only young boys, maybe thats why they treat their women so bad. I hope they don't let politics get in the way and let this #$%^$@#!$%#$@# pervert go free. Fifty years with no parole. ALL the damned 911 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia and what do we do? We let More of them into the country. Our Government is truly Nuts. Let me repeat, Nuts.
Old Arab proverb:
For children, a woman.
For pleasure, a boy.
For ecstasy, a mellon.
I sure hope all of you getting hot under the collar about this (calling for genitalia to be chopped off, beheadings, assault by man or beast etc.) will be just as vocal when the footballers from Steubenville work their way through the justice system......
this guy is lamenting that bush isn't president...he would let this guy fly away
Time to drill HIM with NO OIL in sight. Stinking saudi vermin should be tossed into the lions den at Folsom. He belongs in "General Population" with no chance of talking to his VERY VERY RICH father. What's ok in SA is NOT ok here in the USA and he should be taught a 25 year lesson. Butt-banging a 13 year old is the worst. Why doesn't he get a woman?? I'll tell you why, he is a "Fahg". That alone will get his head lopped off in SA, and his body will never be given the rights of a muslim, even though moe-ham-id was a child molester, he said, "Do as I say, not as I do". Very wierd ways indeed.
How about assigning this Muslim piece of garbage to a woman's prison? Being raped in a man's prison won't affect him at all - men on men is standard male Muslim culture. But what women would do to this boy would have an affect on him that would make his life hell - which it should be.
These homos/fags/queers/ and dikes just contaminate this country. When will they understand that their nasty lifestyle IS NOT natural? Why is so hard for them to understand that their unsanitary lifestyle is learned from childhood? This goes to show you that no matter what part of the world you come from fags are up to no good. The Vatican just ruled on their habits as been unethical now the High Court will rule this summer that their habits and lifestyles are unconstitutional and therefore they should be banned. Recommend the government offer all fags/queers/homos/ and of course dikes as well a free cruise to the Bahamas on excess passenger ships so they all can leave together. Inform the Capatain he MUST sail through the Bermuda Triangle. "If" they make it through the Bermuda Triangle, they land on Fidel Castro's backdoor.
Like maybe the story will turn out to be that the kid pushed HIM into the room and asked for it?
It's still a felony, stupid.