Ransom Demanded for Chinese Exchange Student ‘Being Held Against His Will’ in Utah
A Chinese foreign exchange student in Utah is “being held against his will” and his parents in China say they have now received a ransom demand along with a photo of their son, police say.
The bizarre saga began early Friday, when the Utah Department of Public Safety and the Riverdale Police Department both sounded the alarm over 17-year-old Kai Zhuang, who was reportedly last seen in the wee hours of Thursday morning at his host family's home and was feared abducted.
With apparently little information to go on, police sent out an endangered missing person alert that, just hours later, spiraled into an investigation including the FBI, the U.S. Embassy in China, and Chinese officials.