Hail Haia chief gets death threats, suspect arrested

The officers detained the 18-year-old man in the town of Al-Shamli, 160 km southwest of Hail, according to a police statement on Tuesday.
The young man allegedly called and threatened Sheikh Farhan Al-Anzi following the arrest of a Saudi woman who was caught while in khalwa (illegal seclusion) with a man in her desert home.
The Haia chief contacted police after receiving the threats. The police said the man was being questioned to determine why he was making death threats using stolen mobile phone numbers.
It is not known whether he was related to the pair found in khalwa.
The woman in her 40s was living in a desert area near Al-Shamli. When Haia members tried to arrest her, she started firing shots from her Kalashnikov machine gun to ward them off until the man with her was able to escape.
The Haia members finally arrested the woman and took her to the police station where she was detained for questioning. Officers were also able to arrest the man. Meanwhile, the Haia in Yanbu was able to catch a young Saudi man who threatened to circulate photographs of a young Saudi girl in her 20s if she did not sleep with him.
According to Haia members, the young girl wrote to them complaining that she had entered into a relationship with the man based purely on telephone conversations and gave him her pictures after he convinced her of his love and desire to marry her.
The Haia said its members ambushed the man after they spotted him waiting for the girl near her college. They said pictures of the girl were found on his mobile phone.