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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1114330)	1/31/2019 3:50:16 PM
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He was accused of killing a Portland teen. Feds believe the Saudis helped him escape ...... “It begs the question: Why isn’t the Saudi government respecting our justice system?” said Chris Larsen, a lawyer for Smart’s mother, Fawn Lengvenis. “It’s reprehensible.” ..... The Saudi government has routinely worked to help its citizens facing criminal charges in the U.S., just as the United States helps its own citizens abroad. Some helped by the Saudis later attempted or succeeded in fleeing the country. Its consulate posted a $100,000 bail for a Saudi national accused of rape in Utah in 2015. Police later arrested the suspect, Monsour Alshammari, at the U.S.-Mexico border and he was sentenced to a year in prison after pleading guilty to the charge, according to court records and media reports. Federal court records in Oregon show the Saudi government also bailed out Ali Hussain Alhamoud from the Lincoln County Jail in 2012 after he was indicted on multiple sex crime charges, including first-degree rape. Alhamoud, who records show was living in Corvallis at the time, managed to board a plane in Portland on the same day he was released and returned to Saudi Arabia, according to a criminal complaint. His case, previously unreported, remains open in Lincoln County. .......... Noorah’s gold Lexus illegally swerved around traffic that had stopped for the girl and struck her at 55 to 60 mph, police said. Smart, weeks shy of her 16th birthday and the start of her sophomore year at Franklin High School, died at the scene. Witnesses at the time told police that the driver didn't stop and continued speeding down the road. Noorah later returned to the crash scene and was arrested, police said .... https://www.oregonlive.com/expo/news/erry-2018/12/9b5b1eff724150/he-was-accused-of-killing-a-po.html Gone: More cases emerge of Saudi students vanishing while facing Oregon charges In December 2014, a university student from Saudi Arabia was arrested in Monmouth and accused of raping a classmate after giving her marijuana and shots of Jack Daniel’s. Bail was set at a half-million dollars. The judge ordered the student, Abdulaziz Al Duways, to turn over his passport to the private defense lawyer hired to represent him, according to court records and the Polk County District Attorney’s Office. A few days later, an official from the Royal Consulate General of Saudi Arabia in Los Angeles posted bail. Al Duways disappeared. ........... The Oregonian/OregonLive has found criminal cases involving at least five Saudi nationals who vanished before they faced trial or completed their jail sentence in Oregon. They include two accused rapists, a pair of suspected hit-and-run drivers and one man with child porn on his computer. The five cases share many similarities: - All were young men studying at a public college or university in Oregon with assistance from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at the time of their arrest. - In four of the cases, the Saudi government stepped in to help, posting large sums of money for bail and possibly underwriting legal fees. - Three surrendered their passports. - All disappeared while facing charges or jail time. - The same Oregon defense attorney, Ginger Mooney, was hired to represent the four most recent suspects. - Little is known of the whereabouts of the five, though some have been traced back to Saudi Arabia. .......... oregonlive.com