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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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inshallah
What kind of family takes their kids to Vegas on New Year's Eve and lets a kid this age run around by himself? Great parenting job.
with all due respect, your statement is real close to 'females shouldn't wear sexy clothes' or they may get raped.
What???
We let the U.S. Air Force bring this guy into the U.S and then lose track of him. Good thing he didn't have a Bomb. Our Government is out of control. Where was Homeland Security????????????? or the FBI???? or those that let him into the country in the first place??? They should be held accountable for this guys crimes.
I'll keep my Guns thank you.
What? How can it be that the beloved, devout, protected middle easterners have crotch-cannibals and pedophiles in their midst? Surely there must be some mistake. Or maybe he is studying to be a priest??? Stump-hang the scumbag.
Being a victim @ 13 myself, Its not hard to say: "Get a rope!"
I escaped with only being fondled by the pastor/perv, yet because I told, and it was kept quiet, I still believe bullies don't get whats coming to them (that's another story), I trust NO humans, I'm older (52) pretty messed up by your standards, but I blame no one. They have freewill to do as they please to others, I choose not to be mean. I don't know how things woulda been different if seeing the preacher punished for what he did, either by Dad stomping a mud hole in em, or him doing hard time taking abuse himself. I do know he went back up North to Pastor, finlly R U N T off with a couple 17 year old boys, (leaveing wife and kids behind in shame), Been told he Deaded up from AIDS. You say he got whats coming to him, I say What if I was his first? Did you listen? What did you learn? Do you say mean things to co-workers/employees? Do you think only for self? What you should be asking is: "Why haven't we seen you in the News Unique?"
Other than not giving those *SOB's the satisfaction of a prodigy, to keep hurting others, IDK.
Remember: "Greed just as Justice is bind" So if you can't see its the blind leading the blind, hope for tomorrow is a FAIL
*All those people that know their right
I'm so Sorry, I was off my meds when I typed that mess. You all should trust our leaders to do the right thing, we have laws and such to protect the Innocent. We are so lucky here to have Equal Rights, rich and poor alike. If Walmart or some other min-wage job will have a over experienced employee who will follow blindly, I'm your man! I will freely show you ways to increase your production and let you take all the credit/raises and never say a word. When a person of power/$$$ abuses me I promise to remain quite cause I'm lucky to have a job! That also applies to your abuse of others including children and seniors.
BAZINGA!
It is sad to see that this whole wonderful internet blogging that suppose to bring people together is being used by people to demonize one another. Instead of demonizing a whole continent why don't you people find something in common and teach each other not to hate. this guy is a criminal just like all other criminals. no need to go any farther and tagging a whole continent or islam to this. the priests do this kind of alot more and people still go to church and we don't see you guys deminizing the whole christian faith over a few pervert.
the difference between priests etc is the bible does NOT condone raping boys..HOWEVER islam/mohammed directly states to do this.
in no way, shape or form do i condone what this man did...HOWEVER, if you read about the teachings of mohammed..which i did just to actually see why they are so nuts!!!...anyway, you'll see that mohammed's teachings indicate taking boys as lovers..the descriptions given by mohammed on what to do will actually make you sick to your stomach....this dude was just following his religious teaching..probably doesn't really believe he did anything wrong.
Good thing he was able to polish up his "English skills" a touch before his encounter........must be member of the Saudi Crown Jewels, typical " No Mazen, we use the camels to go to town, thats where the action is"
Bang! case closed.
homosexual pedophile
see over there its ok to screw little boys just dont get caught screwing a goat your put to death
All the legalized "same sex" marriages notwithstanding, male homosexuality is repugnant in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Even more so forcible sodomy. This is not the case in the Moslem Middle East whose literature frequently celebrates sex between men and boys as the highest of pleasures.
This is now a legal matter and could be compared to sexual offenses committed by US servicemen on Okinawa, except that the USA contains no Saudi military bases. The Saudi government will surely pay major compensation to the victim's family and pressure the State of Nevada to allow the perpetrator to serve a prison sentence back home after a guilty plea.
He'll be a celebrity soon as he gets of the plane in Riyadh for taking his pleasure with an "infidel" boy.
U.S. soldiers have been doing this overseas...think about it.
All rapist regardless of nationality, religion, military/civilian, ethnicity, age, etc should have their THNIG cut off.
Forces me to ask the question, "What would Mohammed do?"
Oh yeah.... never nind.
Cut the hands off of Mazen Alotabi--and ship him back to dirty Saudi Arabia