By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-26 07:50:11 | Updated at 2024-10-01 04:10:30
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Air Force vet Joseph Lopez, brother Joshua, who were drugged during Dubai yacht party, speak out as they’re freed from UAE jail, land in US — with help from JD Vance
NY Post ^ | 25 Sept 2024 | Richard Pollina
Posted on 09/26/2024 12:04:42 AM PDT by blueplum
The US airman-turned-social media influencer and his brother — sentenced to jail in Dubai last month after claiming they were lured and drugged at a yacht party — were freed from prison Tuesday, putting an end to the siblings’ four-month “nightmare.”
Joseph and Joshua Lopez arrived home in their native Ohio, Detained in Dubai, an organization dedicated to helping people facing legal issues in the United Arab Emirates, announced late Tuesday...
Detained in Dubai thanked Ohio Senator and Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance for his “help and support” in ensuring the brothers’ safe return....
Vance had been in “constant communication with the State Department, the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates in the United States and the constituents’ family” and was “monitoring the as-yet-unresolved legal proceedings carefully,” a spokesperson for former President Donald Trump’s 2024 running mate told Fox News in August....
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: airforce; dubai; jdvance; josephlopez; joshualopez; ohio; uae; unitedarabemirates; usaf
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Background: "Police charged the brothers with assaulting an officer, resisting arrest, damaging a patrol vehicle, and alcohol consumption...They had bonded out but were given a travel ban preventing them from returning to the US....Late last month, the Lopez brothers were both sentenced to one month in jail for alcohol consumption while on a “tourist visit to the Emirates”
1 posted on 09/26/2024 12:04:42 AM PDT by blueplum
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