Joshua Riibe was unlawfully detained in the Dominican Republic amid the disappearance of Sudiksha Konanki, a local court ...

Judge Edwin Rijo of the Criminal Chamber of the Court of First Instance of La Altagracia has issued the written judgment ...

"We can confirm that he left the Dominican Republic this afternoon and is already in the US," Guzmán Ariza, Abogados Consultores the law firm representing the Riibe family in the DR told WUSA9 ...

“We are pleased to announce that Joshua and his father are currently traveling back to their home in the United States,” attorney Guzmán Ariza said in a statement released Wednesday nigh ...

The American college student who was the last person to see Sudiksha Konanki alive is finally back home in the U.S. Joshua Riibe, 22, was issued a new passport at the U.S. Consulate and has returned ...

"Our firm remains committed to upholding due process and the constitutional guarantees established under Article 69 of our Constitution," said a representative from Guzmán Ariza in a press release.

The law firm Guzmán Ariza confirmed to PEOPLE on Wednesday, March 19, that Riibe, 22, was provided a new passport at the U.S. Consulate and had returned to the U.S. with his father, Albert Riibe.

According to a statement from Guzmán Ariza, Abogados Consultores, the law firm representing the Riibe family, the La Altagracia prosecutor’s office offered to return Joshua’s passport.