(File Photo: Source for Photo: Military personnel search for Sudiksha Konanki, a university student from the U.S. who disappeared on a beach in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, Monday, March. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Francesco Spotorno)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Punta Cana, Dominican Republic) A ruling from a judge on Tuesday gave twenty-two-year-old Joshua Riibe release from being supervised by police in the Dominican Republic. Riibe was the last person to allegedly see missing University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki in Punta Cana. Riibe has been a person of interest in the case and is neither a suspect nor charged with anything. Konanki has been missing since March 6th and her parents want her to be announced deceased.