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(NewsNation) — Police person provided caller details astir Hannah Kobayashi's disappearance, revealing that the 30-year-old lensman voluntarily traveled to Mexico aft spending a nighttime with a alien successful Los Angeles, People.com reported.
Kobayashi disappeared portion traveling from Hawaii to New York, missing a connecting flight successful Los Angeles. Family members said they received texts that were retired of quality from her earlier her telephone was turned off.
Investigators with the Los Angeles Police Department told People.com Kobayashi met an unidentified man astatine Los Angeles International Airport connected Nov. 11. The brace spent astir 9 hours together, walking done downtown Los Angeles and yet falling dormant astatine Union Station.
According to Lt. Doug Oldfield and Detective Omar Franco, the antheral said Kobayashi appeared coherent and engaged during their encounter. He besides told constabulary she discussed her beingness successful Maui, idiosyncratic matters and question plans, including intentions to sojourn the Redwoods and New York, People.com reported.
Hannah Kobayashi seen crossing into Mexico
Surveillance video showed Kobayashi astatine LA's Grove Market and adjacent the stadium wherever the LA Lakers play. She did not look to beryllium unsocial successful immoderate of the footage, starring her household to fearfulness she had been trafficked.
At 6:10 a.m. connected Nov. 12, Kobayashi purchased a autobus summons and traveled to the Mexican border, arriving successful Tijuana astir noon. Her telephone was near down astatine LAX.
Police person classified her disappearance arsenic voluntary and ended their progressive investigation, though Kobayashi remains successful their missing persons system.
The family's hunt for her was analyzable by the suicide of her father, Ryan Kobayashi.
Hannah Kobayashi whitethorn person been greenish paper matrimony scam victim
Her parent and sister resisted, saying the constabulary had released inaccurate accusation and were not updating them connected developments.
They said they bash not deliberation Kobayashi intentionally missed her formation and judge she whitethorn person been a victim of a greenish paper matrimony scam aft photos of what appeared to beryllium a wedding betwixt Kobayashi and an chartless antheral surfaced online.
“A Facebook idiosyncratic sent what looked similar a Hawaiian formation wedding photograph of Hannah with different antheral with leis astir their necks wearing white, and they said that they learned disconnected of Reddit that determination was this sham matrimony for wealth and that this is the wedding representation that’s being circulated connected Reddit,” said Sara Azari, the Kobayashi household attorney, to NewsNation. “Of course, that came arsenic a daze to Hannah’s sister.”
Los Angeles Magazine, citing unnamed sources, said Kobayashi whitethorn person been progressive successful a concealed matrimony crippled for money. The mag characterized the matrimony arsenic an migration strategy wherever Hannah was tricked retired of the wealth that she was expected to receive.
The Argentinian antheral believed to beryllium progressive was connected the formation from Maui to LAX connected Nov. 8, and truthful was Kobayashi’s ex-boyfriend.
Police said they invited immoderate accusation from Kobayashi herself. "We don't person her broadside of the story," Oldfield said.
Kobayashi, who worked arsenic a lensman and fume store worker successful Hawaii, was primitively scheduled to alert to New York from LAX connected Nov. 8 but did not committee the flight.
Authorities said they recovered nary grounds of transgression enactment oregon foul play successful her disappearance.
NewsNation's Anna Kutz and Mills Hayes contributed to this report.
