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Thank goodness someone at least remembers that thing about Ricci and his drug rehab! I know I discussed it with people on another forum, on about June 26.

It's possible that the actual scoop was: Ricci was supposed to have been attending drug rehab or drug testing, and he wasn't going every time he was supposed to. That is certainly a very common occurence with parolees or probationers in the criminal justice system. This bit about his missing drug rehab sessions/testing sessions may have somehow been misunderstood by someone on TV, as his having told POLICE that he was at drug counseling/testing on the morning of June 5.

I feel sure that Ricci was required to go to something beyond AA and/or NA, although they probably encouraged him to go to those too. Probation/parole officers and judges can't just tell someone to just attend AA or NA, b/c there is no way to verify if the person ever goes, b/c AA and NA refuse (for good reason) to ever tell anyone who attends their meetings.

I also thought that Ricci had at first told the police he was out with friends on the night of June 4. I'm still looking for where I got that notion.

I remember early reports that Ricci's parole officer had just found out a few weeks before the kidnapping that Ricci wasn't attending the drug program he was supposed to be in and he had told Ricci if he didn't get back on the program he was going back to jail. In other words, he knew he was using and was giving him one warning to give it up. So Ricci knew he was headed back to prison since it probably wasn't likely he could just quit the drugs at will so why not a final fling with his buddies before going back up the river.

the conditions of just simple probation require aa meetings with a sponsor, frequent drug tests, no excuses. ricci was a "28yr criminal" in the utah system. Come on, if ricci was the first guy on the list given to the police, Red Flag.