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He was accused of killing a Portland teen. Feds believe the Saudis helped him escape
Source: The Oregonian
He was accused of killing a Portland teen. Feds believe the Saudis helped him escape
By Shane Dixon Kavanaugh | Posted December 23, 2018 at 09:30 AM | Updated December 23, 2018 at 03:03 PM
A black SUV pulled up to Abdulrahman Sameer Noorah’s home in Southeast Portland two weeks before his June 2017 trial.
Noorah, a Saudi national charged the year before in the fatal hit-and-run of a teenage girl crossing Hawthorne Boulevard, had a bag packed that Saturday afternoon.
The private car drove the 21-year-old Portland Community College student to a sand-and-gravel yard two miles away.
That’s where Noorah sliced off the tracking monitor he had worn around his ankle for months, according to interviews with federal authorities. He then discarded it at the scene before vanishing, leaving a victim’s family crushed and prosecutors furious and flummoxed.
Law enforcement officials now say they believe Noorah got an illicit passport and boarded a plane — likely a private carrier — to flee the country.
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By Shane Dixon Kavanaugh | Posted December 23, 2018 at 09:30 AM | Updated December 23, 2018 at 03:03 PM
A black SUV pulled up to Abdulrahman Sameer Noorah’s home in Southeast Portland two weeks before his June 2017 trial.
Noorah, a Saudi national charged the year before in the fatal hit-and-run of a teenage girl crossing Hawthorne Boulevard, had a bag packed that Saturday afternoon.
The private car drove the 21-year-old Portland Community College student to a sand-and-gravel yard two miles away.
That’s where Noorah sliced off the tracking monitor he had worn around his ankle for months, according to interviews with federal authorities. He then discarded it at the scene before vanishing, leaving a victim’s family crushed and prosecutors furious and flummoxed.
Law enforcement officials now say they believe Noorah got an illicit passport and boarded a plane — likely a private carrier — to flee the country.
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Read more: https://www.oregonlive.com/expo/news/erry-2018/12/9b5b1eff724150/he-was-accused-of-killing-a-po.html
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Source: Washington Post
He fled before his trial for allegedly killing a teen girl. A U.S. prosecutor thinks Saudi Arabia helped him.
By Eli Rosenberg December 29 at 8:00 AM
Shawn Overstreet, a prosecutor in Portland, Ore., received the alert by surprise at the end of a weekend.
The GPS device worn by a 21-year-old student awaiting a trial on a manslaughter charge had been cut near a sand and gravel facility in town.
The student, Abdulrahman Sameer Noorah, a Saudi Arabian national living in the United States on a government scholarship, had asked the sheriff’s deputy who was monitoring him on supervised house arrest if he could go to the community college he was attending to study for upcoming exams. She had said yes.
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About a year later, the Saudi government confirmed what Overstreet had feared, that Noorah had made it out of the United States and back to Saudi Arabia, despite having no passport, Overstreet said. Overstreet has developed a working theory: Noorah escaped with the help of the Saudi government.
The unusual case has drawn wide attention since it was reported by the Oregonian this week. Amid simmering international anger over the killing of Washington Post contributing columnist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in October, Noorah’s case, if the Saudi connection is proved, would be another illustration of the impunity with which Saudi Arabia seems to act around the world.
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By Eli Rosenberg December 29 at 8:00 AM
Shawn Overstreet, a prosecutor in Portland, Ore., received the alert by surprise at the end of a weekend.
The GPS device worn by a 21-year-old student awaiting a trial on a manslaughter charge had been cut near a sand and gravel facility in town.
The student, Abdulrahman Sameer Noorah, a Saudi Arabian national living in the United States on a government scholarship, had asked the sheriff’s deputy who was monitoring him on supervised house arrest if he could go to the community college he was attending to study for upcoming exams. She had said yes.
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About a year later, the Saudi government confirmed what Overstreet had feared, that Noorah had made it out of the United States and back to Saudi Arabia, despite having no passport, Overstreet said. Overstreet has developed a working theory: Noorah escaped with the help of the Saudi government.
The unusual case has drawn wide attention since it was reported by the Oregonian this week. Amid simmering international anger over the killing of Washington Post contributing columnist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in October, Noorah’s case, if the Saudi connection is proved, would be another illustration of the impunity with which Saudi Arabia seems to act around the world.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/12/29/he-fled-before-his-trial-allegedly-killing-teen-girl-prosecutor-thinks-saudi-arabia-helped-him/
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