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Family & Police Kept at Bay as One-Man Siege Continues |
2004-11-01 |
![]() Arab News yesterday highlighted the ordeal of a Jeddah family terrorized by their drug-addicted relative. For the past two years, Al-Mutairi has threatened to shoot other relatives and has stabbed his nephew and another man in separate incidents. Yesterday, relatives of the wanted man were told by police that because there was no male guardian in the house other than the suspect, they were powerless to apprehend him. Members of the Al-Mutairi family then contacted Arab News which in turn contacted several top police officials in Riyadh and Jeddah to get to the bottom of this. The matter appeared to be relatively simple in that the man is an armed, drug addicted fugitive threatening his family with physical harm living in a house that belongs to their dying mother. For all intents and purposes, and in most other countries in the world, when a man is wanted by the authorities and his location is known, the police would knock on the door, go inside and get their man. |
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