A Saudi prince reportedly was arrested Wednesday at a compound near Beverly Hills in connection with an alleged sex crime, according to Los Angeles police. Los Angeles police were called to the gated community in Wallingford Drive, Beverly Glen area after a caretaker at the home reported a 'disturbance', officials said.
Majed Abdulaziz Al-Saud, 28, was arrested on suspicion of forced oral copulation of an adult. Police were called to the gated compound after a caretaker at the home reported the disturbance.
Al-Saud was freed on $300,000 bail Thursday afternoon. LAPD officer Drake Madison said the suspect was booked after 4 p.m.
Capt. Tina Nieto said the police department has a consul liaison that checks with foreign nations’ consulates regarding a certain person’s diplomatic immunity. Nieto said Al-Saud doesn’t have immunity in this case.
Tennyson Collins, a neighbor, saw a bleeding woman trying to scale the property’s 8-foot wall on Wednesday. When Collins returned home from work, police followed his car through the gates and then onto the property. He said officers escorted about 20 people out of the compound, most of them staff members.
Police said Al-Saud was only renting the home, which Zillow values at $37 million. Collins said different foreign nationals have been renting out the home for weeks at a time over the past year.
Beverly Hills is fast becoming a playground for the mega rich from the Middle East.
For the past few summers, rich young Saudis, Qataris, Kuwaitis and other Middle Easterners, accompanied by their personal Ferraris, Bugattis and Aventadors, have flocked to the area after their former haunts in Paris, London, Cannes and Monaco became less receptive to the crush of super-expensive supercars with Arabic tags drawing crowds of gaping rubberneckers
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