Joshua Riibe was illegally arrested in the Dominican Republic, the court says

Following his return to the United States, a court of Dominican Republic has decided that Joshua Riibe was illegally arrested in the country in the middle Sudiksha Konanki’s disappearance.

The law firm Guzmán Ariza confirmed to People on Wednesday, March 19 that Riibe, 22, was provided a new pass in the US consulate and had returned to the United States with his father, Albert Riibe.

In a Friday March 28, the press release announced with People, the law firm announced that a judge issued a detailed judgment containing the court’s legal reasoning for Riibe’s immediate release.

According to the judgment, Riibe “illegally exceeded the maximum period of 48 hours permitted under the Constitution for the Dominican Republic and the Dominican Code for Criminal Procedure,” the press release said.

Riibe was before is considered a person of interest At the sheriff’s office in Loudoun County, Va., where Konanki, 20, lived. He is believed to be the last person who saw her alive on March 6.

“Under these provisions, the Prosecutor’s Office is obliged to submit formal charges within forty -eight hours after an arrest or detention,” the press release added. Riibe was never accused of or charged with any crime.

A judge in the Dominican Republic decided that Riibe would no longer be held under police surveillance And that he was not considered a person of interest in the disappearance during a March 18 court hearing. Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office said too He would no longer be regarded as a person of interest.

The law firm’s press release found that even if the new judgment “does not constitute a new decision”, it proves that the original decision that allows Riibe to return to the United States “was immediately valid and enforceable.”

Konanki was last seen during the early morning hours March 6 while Go on a beach at Riu Republica Resort in Punta Cana, according to Dominican civil defense and one Missing poster Shared on social media. She was on a Spring Break trip and lived at the Resort Hotel with five friends who arrived in the country on March 3 press release.

She was last seen on video surveillance cameras with a group Go on the beach around 04:15 Est that morningthe police said. While most of the group left, surveillance films showed that Riibe stayed with her.

However, the investigators later, through interviews and surveillance films, decided that it Riibe had returned to the resort alone at 9 o’clock

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It is now believed to Konanki Drowned then In the sea after being caught by a large wave after she and Riibe bathed during the early morning hours. Her parents, Subbarayudu and Sreedevi Konanki, now believe that their Daughter drowned in the coarse currents.