Hannah Kobayashi – who sparked nationwide consideration after her disappearance from LAX final month – has returned to the US.
Kobayashi, 31, crossed the Mexico border into California over the weekend, the place she was questioned by US officers who requested if she was OK, a supply advised TMZ.
She seemed to be wholesome as she met together with her lawyer on the border earlier than leaving with him. Her household was not there to fulfill her, the outlet reported.
The Hawaii lady made contact with family on Wednesday to inform them that she was positive after disappearing from Los Angeles Worldwide Airport in November.
Whereas she was lacking, her father, Ryan Kobayashi, took his personal life by reportedly leaping from a constructing construction close to LAX after touring to California to assist authorities search for her.
He was tragically discovered useless on the backside of a parking construction round 4am on November 24 – a bit of over two weeks after his daughter was reported lacking.
Kobayashi was on her solution to New York from her residence on the Hawaiian island of Maui, when she determined to stroll out of Los Angeles Worldwide Airport and disappear.
She wasn’t on that flight by herself, as she was joined by her alleged new Inexperienced Card husband Argentina-native Alan Cacace, in an obvious bid to hoodwink immigration officers into believing their marriage was real, DailyMail.com beforehand revealed.
Hannah Kobayashi, who sparked nationwide consideration after her disappearance from LAX, has returned to the US
Whereas she was lacking, her father, Ryan Kobayashi, took his personal life by reportedly leaping from a constructing construction close to LAX after touring to California to assist authorities search for her
And, on that very same flight, her ex-boyfriend Amun Miranda joined them together with his personal alleged Inexperienced Card spouse Marianne – who simply occurred to be Cacace’s girlfriend.
This messy love sq., all on one airplane collectively, was solely attainable as a result of Cacace had allegedly given Kobayashi $15,000 with the promise of an identical sum as soon as the immigration paperwork that allowed him to remain in america have been issued.
The ruse of their sham marriage was already within the works after they tied the knot in October. Footage of the ceremony have been proven to Kobayashi’s colleagues at Up ‘N Smoke, the Maui smoke store the place she labored.
‘There was no secret,’ Desiree, a co-worker, advised DailyMail.com. ‘She advised us about her plans.’
‘The Argentinian couple wished to hop on the journey on the final minute as a result of it introduced a possibility for images of their “romantic trip,”‘ Desiree defined.
However the dynamics of the group shortly received difficult.
The Hawaii lady, 31, made contact with family on Wednesday to inform them that she was positive after disappearing from Los Angeles Worldwide Airport in November
Kobayashi together with her ex boyfriend Amun Miranda seen at a 2023 Christmas celebration
Kobayashi’s colleagues advised DailyMail.com she had combined emotions about occurring the journey – feeling each excited by checking off a location on her bucket record the place she may see family, but additionally annoyed she’d need to share her flight with ex-boyfriend Miranda.
Her coworkers additionally divulged that Cacace and his girlfriend have been some extent of rivalry for the previously lacking lady, who did not need both of them approaching this journey.
Kobayashi supposedly advised them she did not need to waste time taking images, however would reluctantly sacrifice sooner or later of her weekly deliberate trip to fulfill their needs.
After which there was Marianne, who Kobayashi had a latest combat with revolving round her jealousy of marrying her boyfriend Cacace.
‘I do keep in mind Hannah saying that the girlfriend had a difficulty together with her,’ Desiree mentioned. ‘And Hannah was like “Lady, I am not making an attempt to steal your man. That is an association all of us talked about beforehand”.’
Ryan Kobayashi holds an image of his lacking daughter Hannah exterior Crypto.com Area together with her aunt Larie Pidgeon
Her household then reported her lacking three days later after receiving cryptic textual content messages, together with speak that she had just lately undergone a ‘religious awakening, after she was attributable to meet household in New York.’
After she was reported lacking, her coworkers determined to do some digging of their very own since they knew the backstory of what was happening on the journey to New York Metropolis.
Desiree, who had recognized Miranda since highschool texted him telling him they have been actively searching for his ex, going so far as to ask for the Argentinian couple’s identify and in the event that they made it to New York.
‘All appears very sus and you need to have advised her household she did not get on the flight,’ Desiree texted Miranda. ‘Really no you need to’ve received off that flight if you realized she wasn’t on it.. Clarify.’
Miranda shot again on the questioning coworker saying it wasn’t his job to take care of her.
‘She’s an grownup and I would heard she’d additionally probably had plans in Cali,’ he texted.
Her coworkers determined to dig since they knew the backstory of what was happening on the journey to New York Metropolis. Desiree who had recognized Miranda since highschool reached out to him on Instagram to search out out extra info
Miranda gave Desiree a prolonged clarification the place he shot again at her questioning saying it wasn’t his job to take care of her
‘I’ve no purpose to get off a airplane and miss time alone journey for one thing I believed was so simple as simply lacking one flight and catching the following accessible one,’ he sniped.
‘I should not need to do something as a result of her and I had break up up 3-4 months in the past and agreed to no contact.’
Miranda and Kobayashi’s plan received messy when he found she had met up with an ex-boyfriend – a DJ she’d dated for years – which led to them breaking apart.
Kobayashi’s ex-boyfriend additionally vehemently defended her alleged Inexperienced Card husband Cacace.
‘Her husband is good and only a lil man and would not harm a fly,’ he wrote. ‘He has nothing to do with any of this.’
Miranda mentioned his greatest guess was that Kobayashi was off taking medication, or having a psychological well being disaster.
Amun Miranda had dated Kobayashi for 2 years earlier than he caught her assembly up together with her DJ ex and broke up together with her in August, however the pair nonetheless determined to go forward with the New York journey
‘To be sincere,’ he wrote, ‘from what her mates and her mother have advised me from the issues she mentioned to them main as much as this it’s totally attainable to be having some sort of a psychological breakdown from lack of sleep, an excessive amount of psychedelics, or coke. I do not know.’
In her hometown, sources say Kobayashi was recognized to make use of psychedelics, cocaine and whippets – or nitrous oxide.
An individual near Miranda’s household advised DailyMail.com that Kobayashi had a ‘heavy drug drawback’ and that it was a think about her breakup with him.
‘Amun actually did not like her drug behavior,’ mentioned Anita Lopez, who lives on his mom’s property. ‘He was simply disgusted by it.’
‘There is a distinction between leisure use and abusing,’ she mentioned.
Earlier this month, the LAPD reported that Kobayashi had crossed voluntarily into Mexico.
However her household continued contradicting the police in public statements, saying they nonetheless didn’t know whether or not Kobayashi was protected.
They claimed that they had not seen the surveillance footage that exhibits her strolling throughout the border into Mexico till December 2.
Earlier this month, the LAPD reported that Kobayashi had crossed voluntarily into Mexico however her household continued contradicting police in public statements, saying they nonetheless didn’t know whether or not she was protected
Police closed the probe into her whereabouts after discovering that she was ‘voluntarily lacking.’
After she was positioned, her household mentioned in an announcement they have been ‘extremely relieved and grateful that Hannah has been discovered protected.’
Kobayashi’s family have confronted backlash after police revealed she was not lacking, as that they had raised cash for the search.
The donation web page raised greater than $47,000, however since Kobayashi resurfaced, the household introduced they might be turning donations off and that they might honor any claims submitted for a refund.
They mentioned: ‘We’re turning donations off, and any donor who would really like a refund can submit a declare by December 18th, and will probably be honored.’
