A judge in the Dominican Republic has allowed Joshua Riibe, the last person to see missing college student Sudiksha Konanki, to leave the country.
Judge Edwin Delgado declared following a five-hour hearing Tuesday that “Joshua Riibe is free to leave,” according to a report from the New York Post, which provided the translation from Spanish-language news outlet Noticias Telemicro.
The official ordered the 22-year-old Iowa native to receive his passport.
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“I really want to be able to go home, talk to my family, give them hugs, tell them I miss them,” Riibe told Delgado during the hearing.
“I understand I’m here to help, but it’s been 10 days and I can’t leave.”
Riibe said he was effectively imprisoned at the RUI Hotel and Resort, with
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