Posted on 12/30/2023 3:05:24 AM PST by Libloather
Police are looking for a 17-year-old foreign exchange student who they believe was "forcefully taken" from the home he was sharing with his host family in Utah.
In a press conference on Friday, Riverdale Police Chief Casey Warren said that authorities believe that Kai Zhuang, an exchange student from China, was "forcefully taken" and is "being held against his will."
Authorities said that Zhuang was last seen at about 3:30 a.m. on Thursday and police were notified of his disappearance by 8:30 p.m. that night.
The student was described as 5-feet-9, 150 pounds with black hair and black eyes.
Police sent an endangered missing person advisory on Friday after the department received a call from Zhuang's local high school saying that they had heard from his concerned parents in China.
Zhuang's frantic parents claimed that they received a photo of their son along with a ransom letter, Chief Warren said.
Riverdale police say they are working with the FBI, the US Embassy in China and Chinese officials to locate the missing juvenile.
No suspect has been identified at this time.
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Sum ting wong.
For sure.
Too many questions here. Why wouldn’t the host family have reported it him missing? Why the apparent 17-hour delay between his last being seen and the police being notified? How did his parents in China contact the school and actually reach anyone there over the holidays? And why didn’t they try to call the host parents or even call the police in Riverdale?
Did the kid express a desire to defect? CCP secret police found out?
“last seen at about 3:30 a.m”
Mom used to say...nothing good happens after 10 p.m.
“The student was described ... with black hair and black eyes.”
A Chinese student with black hair and black eyes. What are the odds?
...The thing about a shark is it’s got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes...
Sharks and dolls are creepy. Chinese students in America are creepy.
A Chinese guy with “black hair”?! -sarc
> Did the kid express a desire to defect? <
Could be. Or maybe the kid was partying like it was 1999, and ran out of money. So he decided to lay low for awhile, and send a fake ransom note to his parents.
Or maybe he was bragging too much about his parents’ wealth, and someone decided to do a real kidnapping.
“A Chinese student with black hair and black eyes. What are the odds?”
These days? Among cat ladies and asians... Green, blue, or pink hair, or traditional black, and brown eyes for the asians.
“Mom used to say...nothing good happens after 10 p.m.”
Mine too, but the folks stayed up and watched Carson. Many a night I fell to sleep listening to the opening monologue from my room down the hallway from the TV lounge.
Illegal alien Chinese making a buck.
Kidnapping an holding for ransom was big business in China before Xi cracked down.
No one since, can deliver a monologue like Carson, in those days. I remember it well!
Chinese government probably took him.
“Chinese government probably took him”
I believe we have a winner.
“Chinese government probably took him.”
Absolutely. He’s on his way back to China. The ransom thing is a distraction.
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