Police: Flight instructors kidnapped Chinese student, tried to deport him
Authorities say a California pilot and flight instructor and his assistant kidnapped a foreign student and tried to deport him “back to China.”
Jonathan McConkey and ground instructor Kelsi Hoser are accused of kidnapping foreign student Tianshu Shi and trying to forcibly put him on a plane to China, KRCR News reported.
The pair showed up Thursday night at Shi’s apartment, which he shares with other students from the IASCO flight training school in Redding, Calif.
Shi had been living in the U.S. for seven months and is one of dozens of Chinese citizens with student visas who come to train at the flight school, The Washington Post reported on Sunday.
They informed Shi that they were sending him back to China and would come return for him in the morning, according to a police statement.
When they returned around dawn on Friday, Shi reportedly refused to go with them.
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