4 California dentists accused of raping woman at Las Vegas Strip hotel
By Blake Apgar
Las Vegas Review-Journal
August 1, 2018
Four California dentists, including three brothers, face sexual assault charges after a woman accused them of raping her at a Las Vegas Strip hotel last weekend.
Ali Badkoobehi, 30, Saman Edalat, 39, Sina Edalat, 34, and Poria Edalat, 30, were arrested Saturday after a woman reported to Wynn Las Vegas security that she had been raped, according to police records. All four men are licensed dentists in Southern California, according to Dental Board of California records.
The woman told police that she met Badkoobehi in a nightclub early Saturday before he asked her to his suite to continue drinking, according to Badkoobehi’s arrest report. On the way to the room, Badkoobehi kissed and hugged her, the woman told police.
She told investigators that Badkoobehi pushed her onto a chair and got on top of her a short while after they entered the suite. That’s when multiple men started coming from a bedroom within the suite and took turns raping her while holding her down, according to the report.
The woman tried to resist the assault, “but she was too intoxicated and overwhelmed because of how many people were attacking her and she could not fight back,” the report said.
The attack then continued in another room of the suite while one man stood in a doorway, she told police.
“(The victim) then begged for them to stop, asking to leave,” the report said.
Evidence from a hospital examination corroborated the victim’s account of being raped, according to the report.
Poria Edalat told police he was in Las Vegas from Los Angeles to celebrate his birthday.
The men were booked into the Clark County Detention Center. Badkoobehi faces three counts of sexual assault, and the others face two counts of sexual assault. All four also face one count each of first-degree kidnapping and one count each of conspiracy to commit sexual assault.
EDITOR’S NOTE: CBS LA reports that all four were released on their own recognizance Thursday after prosecutors received what Badkoobehi’s attorney calls “exculpatory video evidence,” the Review-Journal reports. Badkoobehi’s lawyer says his client had consensual sex with the woman, while Saman Edalat’s attorney says his client did not have sexual contact with her.
Saman Edalat practices dentistry in Whittier, Poria Edalat practices in Northridge, Sina Edalat in Los Angeles and Badkoobehi in San Diego.
1 comment:
I was propositioned by a prostitute years ago at the old Union Plaza in downtown Vegas. I was up and the chips were in plain view on the table rail. She walked up behind me and in a raspy voice said, "I can do things for you that your wife never dreamed of doing." I didn't miss a beat and replied, "I don't need any shirts ironed tonight." Everybody cracked up and she ran off.
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