There is great news for fugitive Naif Lafi Al-Mutairi wanted by police for numerous assaults against family, friends and others. The news is: For as long as you remain inside your house with a gun, the police won't come after you. Your police complaint file is sitting in a box, under a bed in an unused room at the Al-Safa District police station gathering dust. For all intents and purposes you have been forgotten by the police. In the unlikely event that they come knocking on your door, just stay inside, don't answer the door, and soon enough the police will be gone. You can continue to abuse your family and do all the drugs you want, and no one but those you are harming will ever care.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.