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A Bartlesville man was arrested Friday after reportedly appearing in front of a local restaurant wearing a white mini skirt and little else. The suspect, Hurschel Dale Allen, faces charges of indecent exposure as a result of the incident. Allen, 32, was also scheduled for a jury trial Monday on a charge of outraging public decency stemming from a similar arrest in 2004. In the newest incident, officers were dispatched to a local steak house at approximately 4:16 Friday in reference to a man exposing himself, police reports indicate. When officers arrived, they were flagged down by two witnesses who...

MAKKAH, 27 January 2004 — Al-Shemaisi Passport Department on the Jeddah-Makkah Highway has detained 94 men in women’s clothes who were trying to enter Makkah without Haj permits, Al-Madinah daily reported. The violators were taken to the expatriate administration in Makkah. Some Saudi drivers were also held for questioning. In a similar development, police and Passport Department officials arrested 100 overstayers planning to perform Haj. They will be kept in detention while police investigate the Saudi building owner who provided them shelter. The overstayers did not leave after performing Umrah and were waiting to perform Haj. Police will impose a...