Saudi prince arrested at L.A. compound for alleged sex crime

[n2doc]

Source: LA Times

A Saudi prince was arrested at a hillside compound near Beverly Hills on Wednesday after being accused of trying to force a worker to perform a sex act on him, Los Angeles police said.

Police were called to the gated property in the Beverly Glen area, within a gated community on Wallingford Drive, after a caretaker at the home reported a disturbance, officials said. After officers interviewed people inside, a 28-year-old man identified as Saudi prince Majed Abdulaziz Al-Saud was arrested on suspicion of forced oral copulation of an adult.

He was booked and freed on $300,000 bail Thursday afternoon, jail records show. He could not immediately be reached for comment.

LAPD Officer Drake Madison said Al-Saud was booked after 4 p.m.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-saudi-prince-arrest-beverly-hills-20150924-story.html

[Turbineguy]

1. Remember:

When you go to other countries their customs and laws may be different.

[Marrah_G]

2. Booked and freed- he will never see the inside of court

I bet he is back in Saudi Arabia already.

[madokie]

3. Within hours I would say

[closeupready]

13. Oh yeah. Hardly worth opening the thread here.

What's to discuss? Seriously?

[Marrah_G]

14. ummm huh?

i never said anything about reading the thread or discussing the criminal actions.



Edit: Perhaps you mistook my statement about him being booked and freed as somehow thinking that he didnt do anything. My statement was meant as a slam against the Saudi royal family and the US courts that allowed such a flight risk to get bail.

[closeupready]

21. Oh I am completely in agreement with you. My remark was "Man Bites Dog; News At 11:00"

kind of thing. That is, seems like the Saudi's are given carte blanche to engage in all kinds of illegalities, and even when those acts fall into the public arena, 'no problems' - they simply get on a plane and fly away.

And the media will promptly sweep the story right under the rug.

Separately, it just occurred to me - while it's illegal for government officials to take bribes, it's not illegal for media personalities to accept gifts of cash or other kinds of gifts, is it? Ergo, if someone with vast resources wanted to squelch a news story with the potential to ensnare someone influential, then what's to stop them from setting up a numbered Swiss bank account for someone else, with the plea, could you reconsider covering this story?

[Trajan]

30. That is a cynical viewpoint

Regular people, who aren't as cynical, would still prefer to arrest and charge this person, even in absentia, if necessary ...

[closeupready]

33. I'd love to be wrong.

[Reter]

24. How will he get there?

Didn't the court revoke his travel until the case is decided?

[Marrah_G]

25. Pretty sure if the Saudi Royals want to get someone out, they can.

And he wouldn't need a passport to get back into Saudi Arabia.

[Piedras]

31. Diplomatic immunity by a Saudi Royal?

A friend of mine worked as a personal assistant for a Saudi family with diplomatic passports who were visiting the Los Angeles area. So it occurs to me this Saudi Royal may also have a diplomatic passport and thus will have immunity from prosecution in the USA.

[haikugal]

4. I wonder if he will be put on a no fly list....

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

15. Does that list apply to private aircraft or charters?

Or Saudi Royal aircraft?

Does TSA get involved with private aircraft?

[haikugal]

16. I wondered the same thing...

Is it another case of 1% privilege....or does it work across the spectrum? Many have landed on that list for no reason at all...or reasons other than some indication of terrorist possibilities or affiliation.

[Marrah_G]

26. No-fly list would not matter with a private jet.

No one is checking to see who is on board.

[haikugal]

27. Interesting...a whole different world.

[Jesus Malverde]

36. TSA is not involved with private aircraft...nt

[riversedge]

5. seems like this site is the center for parties ....

....Neighbor Tennyson Collins said a resident reported seeing a bleeding woman scream for help as she tried to scale the property’s 8-foot-high wall Wednesday afternoon.

When Collins drove home from work after 1:30 p.m., police followed his car through the gates and onto the property, which he described as a compound. The website Zillow valued the 22,000-square-foot property at $37 million.

Officers escorted some 20 people out of the house, many of them staff, Collins said.


Police said Al-Saud was renting the home. Collins said various foreign nationals have been renting out the property for weeks at a time over the last year but that the biggest incident up to Wednesday had just been a raucous party or two. One person who rented out the home stationed armed guards at the gates, he said.

“Obviously neighbors aren’t happy about it, but it is what it is,” Collins said of the international visitors.

[beemer27]

10. Armed Guards ???

Police said Al-Saud was renting the home. Collins said various foreign nationals have been renting out the property for weeks at a time over the last year but that the biggest incident up to Wednesday had just been a raucous party or two. One person who rented out the home stationed armed guards at the gates, he said.

“Obviously neighbors aren’t happy about it, but it is what it is,” Collins said of the international visitors.


I am curious if the police asked to see the license or badges of the "armed guards" that were stationed at the gates. The local authorities would certainly check to see if a private citizen were carrying legal weapons in a legal manner. Citizens of our country have 2nd Amendments Rights, but must follow the law when exercising these rights. Why is it that wealthy people can have "armed guards" and the police do not check if they are carrying weapons that are legal in that jurisdiction or if the guard can legally possess firearms in that jurisdiction. This should be the practice for foreign visitors as well as citizens who hire these "armed guards". My suspicion is that many of these "guards" should not be carrying any weapons. Just wondering.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

6. Wait, you mean he didn't immediately proclaim diplomatic immunity?

The bail is probably meaningless to him, but he's probably a good choice to be deported and banned from entering US territory ever again.

[nichomachus]

28. I'm not sure every Saudi prince has diplomatic immunity

There are something like 50,000 of them.

[RoccoR5955]

7. How much you wanna bet.

He either gets off on a diplomatic deal, or he skips bail, and nothing happens?

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

12. How about the woman recants (after a meeting with the Prince's liars er, I mean lawyers).

I sure this guy has no problem making her a millionaire. I'd blow him for a million myself!

[Vinca]

8. On the plus side, I assume the worker still has a head and wasn't crucified.

[Botany]

9. Our good friends the Sauds

from the article

Neighbor Tennyson Collins said a resident reported seeing a bleeding woman scream for help as she tried to scale the property’s 8-foot-high wall Wednesday afternoon.

[wordpix]

18. Saudi or American, the 1% think they own everyone and everything

Raising children to think the world is theirs to take from and they never need to lift a finger to help themselves/others turns kids into sociopaths.

[Botany]

20. I had a friend who worked in Saudi Arabia and the stories she told about some ...

.... of the Saudis were nasty. They had islands off the coast that had women on it
for sex, on flights out of the country the minute they left Saudi air space off went
the religious garb and out came the booze , women were from other countries were
brought into the country and treated as slaves and were sexually abused, and women
were beaten for driving.

[MisterP]

11. this prize catch?

http://www.salon.com/2014/04/21/saudi_prince_hunts_down_2100_protected_birds_in_21_days/

[denbot]

17. There is always a Saudi Jet parked just off Imperial Blvd side of LAX

I'll bet the farm its fueled and ready to roll.

[Lychee2]

19. I thought muslim guys were supposed to be into "sexual modesty."

I guess I got that wrong.

http://www.al-islam.org/shiite-encyclopedia-ahlul-bayt-dilp-team/rules-modesty-according-five-islamic-schools-law

[packman]

22. N0,you got that right

Sexual modesty for that guy over there, that girl over there on the sidewalk, that other guy in the chair - but, not for me. See, that is the difference.

[47of74]

29. Just like here.

Laws and rules are not meant for the wealthy conservatives, just regular people.

[yurbud]

32. those with a lot of money have different rules no matter where they are from

[romanic]

23. All that modesty

creates pent-up frustration I presume. :I

[enid602]

34. SA

Good thing he wasn't caught in Saudi Arabia; he'd be minus s pecker right about now.

[Jesus Malverde]

37. yeah right

In Saudi Arabia the royal family rules by decree.

[enid602]

38. crazy. thsts

Crazy Wahabi priests control everuthing. Ö

[Jesus Malverde]

39. No the Wahhabis

Like the Church of England are a tool of the monarch. It's not the Royal family punishing those who call for justice and democracy. The dirty work is left to a "religious" organization that keeps the population in fear and in check, for the monarchy.

[valerief]

35. I didn't think Saudi princes could be arrested in the U.S. nt