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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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Who knew Sandusky had a clone.
Time to line up the firing squad. If this country wasn't run by a bunch of women & sap sucking pussy men and we put to death more people who commit violent acts to innocent people, we would be much better off and the crime rate WOULD go down.
He was homesick for his camels and goats.
Saudi Scum...remove the tool he used to rape a child. That will take care of the problem. He should never see daylight again- he is a danger to every child on the planet.
Middle Easterns and Muslims are really the scum of the world. They are only a small minority that are not criminals. Why are they in the USA if they hate America so much? Because they are hipocrits and want to enjoy all the cool things that the US has, like Vegas. It is time the US government protected us and limit all stop the visas of Middle Easterns. I hold the US govt responsible as mush as these Middle Easterns and Muslim criminals. The Middle East is full of backwards countries and cultures that rape woman and children.
Musta got lonely at night without his camel. Yo Mohammed, get the rope and let's help him go meet his Allah.
Is this guy a Penn State graduate?
What a sick pig to molest a child. Also, why are we allowing so many foreigners into our country, especially around military bases? Could they suddenly have a change of heart such as the Muslim shooter who murdered 13 people and injured others in Texas? He was supposedly an American citizen, but are we letting people in with no background checks because we don't want to offend them?
I won't be shocked if he claims it's his religious right!
just like the priests who molested thousands of boys in churches around the country.
Women are for Babies,Boy's are for Pleasure...
Did you not see the 60 minutes show??? The Dancing Boys of Afganistan,Sick Puppies these People
Oh good grief Danny! I used to be a dancing boy - it was fun!
The best punishment might be delivered by his countrymen. This sort of crime usually results in death-by-torture. Very fitting.
What are Saudi's stationed here?
People should wake up to the BS that is going on...
i have a buddy that was station in the middleeast, he told me that its 100% true that the guys' i mean all the guys would suck a #!ck before they would get any puss in saudi arabia,cause all the woman would not be avialiable lol, so anybody going to visit saudi arabia as a male' make sure you wear a type of board inside ur pants so muhumad cant get to ur @$$ lol!
So What?
Some Saudi's are beheaded for this behavior in his home country.
MC Gusto
I knew this would turn into demonizing the religion of islam. but what would you expect from American hyopocrites? Were the hundreds of priests that sexually assaulted thouisands of kids in the CHURCH follwing Jesus? were the homosexual priests and conservatives religious politicians and coaches who had sex with little boys and men following Jesus Christ?
This guy was not a Muslim scholar nor an imam or even a leader in any way shape or form. HYPOCRITES
Cut his nuts off and ship him back to Saudi.
I think there are several here that need to have that happen! Shall I name a few? I wish it could have happened before they were able to procreate! Many fall in the democratic party - care to guess?
I bet this kid, who is younger than 14, is a flaming sissy! He was the cause of it all and he enticed this guy to do what he did! He probably only screamed foul when he was paid in the wrong currency!!
Well he's going to be someone's "little boy" if he winds up in an American prison.
Karma.
Oh it is not that bad! Actually, it is kind of fun! LOL
Between priests and Sunni muslim men, our kids cannot catch a break. Dozens of our kids died in 9/11, were sexually assaulted in churches throughout America, and now this. Organized religion in the world today hates kids. You cannot convince me otherwise. Malala, the Pakistani kid, only wanted what all kids want; a chance to grow up and have a decent life, and the so called religious Talaban tried to kill her. What did the Jewish God's Son, Jesus Christ, say about those who harm kids?, "It would be better if they had a millstone placed around their neck and be thrown into the deepest part of the ocean." I think Bin Laden needs company in Davy Jones locker. We can start with this muslim miscreant in Vegas.
More religious crap! Fake wizards of the sky and books that are claimed to be written one zillion years ago and the ink is not even dry! LOL You sound as bad as the priest and Sunni's you are trying to admonish! LMAO! You religious people crack me up!
Why in the Hell is a Saudi stationed at one or any of our Military bases?? Just how many foreign troops are stationed at our bases in this country?? I guess they will use them to suppress us because our own troops won't do it.
I always love how these guys come to America to @!$%# in our backyard, then go home and pretend they are good Muslims. What is even more amazing is that we banned our troops (who protected these very same people from Saddam in 1991) from drinking on our bases in their country. Why these guys hate Americans can only be that they know full well that they cannot hold a candle to us morally.
If I were Iran, I would be on high alert. Every time the Saudis do something harmful here in the US, A country in the middle east becomes their whipping boy. Remember 911.
Wait until he meets Big Bubba, I bet his English imporoves 1000% - stop, leave me alone , do not put that in me, what are you doing and all of the other s aytings.
Big Bubba, introduce him to America
Human Males have been known for this behavior since the beginning of time----the Olympics were originally performed by young men in the nude and the audience of older men were the ONLY ones allowed to watch!!
Thank you very much for that history lesson. I was going to have a late lunch at Subway, but now my stomach is rather queasy. I think I will wait until that horrible image has left my short term memory.
SUBWAY: Horse meat was found---so I heard in their subs--Note the Confederate flag on my shirt--if the south would have won the war of 1861--1865--Civil War--General E. Lee would not have put with the acts of some nut case from a foreign county--we used the hanging tree
It is not rape. Pedophilia is an accepted practice in their culture. Just ask the Prophet Muhammad. And anyway, as some know it all politician stated about two months ago, " if it is legitimate rape, the body has ways of stopping it ", or something stupid along that line. I bet his " compadre " Obama gets him off the hook. We wouldn't want to offend a Muslim nation now would we?
Fu-king, filthy, scumbag, child rapist pedophile! I hope some brother with a 10" shlong tears up his ass in the jail cell. Get a few together and pull a gang-bang on him! Not that I am advocating queer sex, just my two cents on what his rightful punishment should entail.
Oh, come on---grow up!!---what do you think Jesus was doing with his twelve buddies???--in between washing each other etc. etc.---'not a woman in sight'
Truthfully, I couldn't care less. I am not religious. All of them have their problems, it just seems that Islam has more problems then the rest. If Jesus truly existed and him and his 12 Apostles were pulling a train on each other, more power to them. They were adults, not children. That is the issue here, CHILDREN and following the laws of the host nation and common decency!
RLTW-----I am going to refer to the past again---in ancient Rome and Greece and God knows were else---it was the custom that every young boy spent time with an adult male as part of his education----what do you think they were doing---holding hands???----it was an accepted custom!!
I certainly think that the Saudi should face punishment for pedophelia!!!
Thank you, we agree that he should face retribution for the rape of a child. I will take your word for it about the ancient Greeks/Romans and their infatuation with young boys. I was not alive then, so I will accept your history lesson. The point is that western culture as a whole has, ( for the most part ) matured in certain ways and come to realize that it is no longer acceptable to rape or otherwise have sex with pre-pubescent children. It has become abhorrent to civilized nations. Unfortunately, most, if not all Muslim nations have remained in the stone age, bronze age, whatever you want to call it, in their mode of thinking on this matter. You can chalk it up to the " peaceful, enlightened " religion of Islam. If they want to practice that perversion in their own country, then so be it. But when you go to another country, you obey their laws or you pay the consequences. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. That same advice goes for anyone, Americans included. If you break the country's laws, then be a man and accept your just desserts.
And I still think Islam is an ass-backward religion. Especially the male population; raping children and keeping your women virtually enslaved. What a bunch of morons. Again, just my opinion. Others views may differ.