Missing college student in the Dominican Republic from Ashburn

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The man who is the last person known to have been with missing University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki is on a JetBlue flight departing the Dominican Republic on Wednesday evening, after being detained for 10 days, multiple sources familiar with the flight plans tell CNN.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/19/us/sudiksha-konanki-joshua-riibe/index.html

Finally. Good news for the rule of law.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The man who is the last person known to have been with missing University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki is on a JetBlue flight departing the Dominican Republic on Wednesday evening, after being detained for 10 days, multiple sources familiar with the flight plans tell CNN.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/19/us/sudiksha-konanki-joshua-riibe/index.html

Finally. Good news for the rule of law.

and certainly for this US citizen “witness”

[Anonymous]

I hope if anyone was involved that she get justice one day. For Natalee Holloway took a very long time. May both RIP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:CNN story says the US Embassy gave him a new passport so I guess the DA still didn’t give him back his original one. The way DR has handled this is nuts.

+1 Glad he's on his way home. First posters were right about him being able to leave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The man who is the last person known to have been with missing University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki is on a JetBlue flight departing the Dominican Republic on Wednesday evening, after being detained for 10 days, multiple sources familiar with the flight plans tell CNN.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/19/us/sudiksha-konanki-joshua-riibe/index.html

Finally. Good news for the rule of law.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:CNN story says the US Embassy gave him a new passport so I guess the DA still didn’t give him back his original one. The way DR has handled this is nuts.

+1. The DR was nuts. Any American that kept up with the details of the witness isn't going to choose the DR if they plan a trip to the Caribbean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:CNN story says the US Embassy gave him a new passport so I guess the DA still didn’t give him back his original one. The way DR has handled this is nuts.

It makes perfect sense if you consider the situation from the DR's perspective.

DR was using this young man as a deflection from all the criminal activity raging around their island and tourist locations. Once this received worldwide attention, the authorities needed a scapegoat to keep attention away from the island, and this young man fit the bill. Any person with a thinking brain could see what was happening.

I hope some high-voltage lawyers step forward and offer their services to this young man. He needs to sue that miserable, wretched hellhole for using him like this. He's going to have a very hard time living down the notoriety, and it will follow him online indefinitely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CNN story says the US Embassy gave him a new passport so I guess the DA still didn’t give him back his original one. The way DR has handled this is nuts.

It makes perfect sense if you consider the situation from the DR's perspective.

DR was using this young man as a deflection from all the criminal activity raging around their island and tourist locations. Once this received worldwide attention, the authorities needed a scapegoat to keep attention away from the island, and this young man fit the bill. Any person with a thinking brain could see what was happening.

I hope some high-voltage lawyers step forward and offer their services to this young man. He needs to sue that miserable, wretched hellhole for using him like this. He's going to have a very hard time living down the notoriety, and it will follow him online indefinitely.

He also needs to sue the hotel for the hellish conditions that contributed to the accident.

[Anonymous]

^^Yup. Also, there have been hotel review allegations against the hotel for spiking alcoholic drinks. Considering how both he and Sudiksha are on video vomiting in the bar, no telling if their drinks were spiked.

[Anonymous]

The thing against the resort could be much larger than one individual.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CNN story says the US Embassy gave him a new passport so I guess the DA still didn’t give him back his original one. The way DR has handled this is nuts.

It makes perfect sense if you consider the situation from the DR's perspective.

DR was using this young man as a deflection from all the criminal activity raging around their island and tourist locations. Once this received worldwide attention, the authorities needed a scapegoat to keep attention away from the island, and this young man fit the bill. Any person with a thinking brain could see what was happening.

I hope some high-voltage lawyers step forward and offer their services to this young man. He needs to sue that miserable, wretched hellhole for using him like this. He's going to have a very hard time living down the notoriety, and it will follow him online indefinitely.

Making “sense” doesn’t make it legal. DR was framing him and waiting for a body to be found. They felt perfectly fine keeping him in perpetuity, he was held for almost 2 weeks (and so was his friend) which is much longer than the legal 48 hours. It’s pretty awful. I cannot trust anything their investigation concludes from this point forward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CNN story says the US Embassy gave him a new passport so I guess the DA still didn’t give him back his original one. The way DR has handled this is nuts.

+1. The DR was nuts. Any American that kept up with the details of the witness isn't going to choose the DR if they plan a trip to the Caribbean.

We had planned to go to the DR on vacation some years ago and I switched to a different location after the awful story about that woman abducted at a resort and left for dead in the basement and neither the resort nor the police would help her husband. She wasn’t drunk or anything — just went downstairs for a snack at llle 10 pm and never came back. The resort implied to her husband she had been drinking and hooked up with someone basically. I understand bad stuff happens everywhere but the reaction of both the resort and the police was pretty shocking. Seems ile they didn’t even do a rape lit at the hospital and police made basically no efforts to find the guy.

https://people.com/crime/husband-opens-up-about-wifes-brutal-beating-at-all-inclusive-resort-i-just-lost-it/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CNN story says the US Embassy gave him a new passport so I guess the DA still didn’t give him back his original one. The way DR has handled this is nuts.

+1. The DR was nuts. Any American that kept up with the details of the witness isn't going to choose the DR if they plan a trip to the Caribbean.

We had planned to go to the DR on vacation some years ago and I switched to a different location after the awful story about that woman abducted at a resort and left for dead in the basement and neither the resort nor the police would help her husband. She wasn’t drunk or anything — just went downstairs for a snack at llle 10 pm and never came back. The resort implied to her husband she had been drinking and hooked up with someone basically. I understand bad stuff happens everywhere but the reaction of both the resort and the police was pretty shocking. Seems ile they didn’t even do a rape lit at the hospital and police made basically no efforts to find the guy.

https://people.com/crime/husband-opens-up-about-wifes-brutal-beating-at-all-inclusive-resort-i-just-lost-it/

wow this is a crazy story. DR off our potential travel list. Already avoided Aruba so this is another no go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CNN story says the US Embassy gave him a new passport so I guess the DA still didn’t give him back his original one. The way DR has handled this is nuts.

It makes perfect sense if you consider the situation from the DR's perspective.

DR was using this young man as a deflection from all the criminal activity raging around their island and tourist locations. Once this received worldwide attention, the authorities needed a scapegoat to keep attention away from the island, and this young man fit the bill. Any person with a thinking brain could see what was happening.

I hope some high-voltage lawyers step forward and offer their services to this young man. He needs to sue that miserable, wretched hellhole for using him like this. He's going to have a very hard time living down the notoriety, and it will follow him online indefinitely.

Making “sense” doesn’t make it legal. DR was framing him and waiting for a body to be found. They felt perfectly fine keeping him in perpetuity, he was held for almost 2 weeks (and so was his friend) which is much longer than the legal 48 hours. It’s pretty awful. I cannot trust anything their investigation concludes from this point forward.

I didn't realize DR had confiscated the friend's passport too. That was even more egregious -- the friend was seen on video walking back from the beach to the hotel with the victim's 5 friends. So he had absolutely nothing to do with Sudiksha's drowning and they still confiscated his passport.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does this mean free to leave but needs to return on 28th?

Does not need to attend in person