Saudi Arabia pays $2 Million bail in Missouri kidnapping/sexual assual case

[cbdo2007]

Saudi Arabia pays $2 million bail in Mo. case
Men charged with kidnapping, sexually assaulting woman

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. —Two men from Saudi Arabia are out of the Greene County jail after their country posted their $2 million bail.

The men, 21-year-old Rayan Mohammed A Alqabbaa and 27-year-old Ahmed Ayed A Alanazi, are charged with kidnapping a woman from a downtown Springfield nightclub and sexually assaulting her in June.

A cab driver notified police after becoming suspicious of how the men were treating the woman. Officers found her in an apartment crying, partially clothed and asking for help.

The county circuit clerk's office says the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia wired the money to the office Tuesday. The Springfield News-Leader reported the men must wear GPS ankle bracelets and their lawyer must keep their passports.

http://www.kmbc.com/news/kansas-city/saudi-arabia-pays-2-million-bail-in-mo-case/-/11664182/23584708/-/8am2m7z/-/index.html

[Egalitarian Thug]

1. Think they're still in the country? n/t

[seabeyond]

2. fuck ya. put their ass in jail. send them to suadi and they can continue to rape and pillage. nt

[Egalitarian Thug]

8. That was the point. These dogs are important enough for the Saudi regime to openly

cough up $2M to spring them, I expect that the officials tracking their bracelets will watch them disappear over the Gulf of Mexico, if they haven't already.

The court just sold them a get-out-of-jail card for $2M.

[seabeyond]

9. i agree. probably correct. i get what you are saying now. thanks. nt

[chowder66]

3. ...says there is video that contradicts the woman's story.

Whether that is true or not time will tell. But that is the last line in the article. Should be noted.

[gollygee]

4. The men's attorneys say that

but even it appeared that she went with them willingly rather than being kidnapped, which is all the nightclub surveillance video could show, it wouldn't explain what happened later at their apartment.

"A cab driver notified police after becoming suspicious of how the men were treating the woman. Officers found her in an apartment crying, partially clothed and asking for help."

Maybe she walked out of the nightclub with them but became suspicious and tried to go back but was forced to continue with them. That's still kidnapping. And if someone was suspicious enough to check on her and found her crying, partially clothed, and asking for help, that's a big deal.

Hard to explain that away by surveillance photo that happened earlier than that.

[chowder66]

5. It wasn't noted

that is all I was doing for those who do not click on links to read everything. The OP can only post 4 paragraphs and that was the last line. Thought it should be mentioned. People can decide what they want to post based on the whole story known so far.

[H2O Man]

10. There is also

a possibility -- however remote -- that the same interests that would put up $2 million for bail might have the resources to hire an attorney who would claim that "evidence" contradicts the charges, rather than saying, "Yeah, they are guilty as sin."

[gollygee]

11. ROFL

[xmas74]

6. We had a case in my Missouri town

one of the defendants was arrested as an accessory. (Murder charge, charge was later upped from accessory.) Anyway, he was a college student and his home country, Saudi Arabia, offered to post bail. Lots of fighting through the system about how he was a flight risk, etc. Finally, courts stated that he had the right to bail. Upon leaving jail he was immediately deported back to Saudi. (He lost his student visa d/t the criminal charge.)

[seveneyes]

7. Pictures of the two suspects

http://www.news-leader.com/article/20130603/NEWS12/306030099/