TSR Updatez: The search for a New Jersey couple who went missing last week after renting a Jet Ski in Barbados was called off by the country’s coast guard, @CNN reports.
Oscar Suarez, 32, and Magdalena Devil, 25, of Montclair, rented a Jet Ski from a local company at Holetown Beach in Barbados on June 24. When the couple didn’t return after going off into the sea, the operators became worried and conducted a search but no trace of the couple, nor the Jet Ski were found. They were both wearing life jackets when they were last seen, according to police.
U.S. authorities who were helping with the search also withdrew their assisting aircraft, officials said. In addition to searching the waters, authorities checked with the management of the hotel where the couple was staying, but neither of them had returned.
Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley told reporters that searches typically last 72 hours but she had instructed authorities to continue looking for Suarez and Devil for an additional three days.
“We need to literally ensure that we have exhausted every possible opportunity with respect to finding your relatives,” Mottley said while addressing the couple’s family members.
The family reportedly handed out flyers on a beach on the island’s west coast hoping to find answers.
“We want answers,” Susanna Cruz, Suarez’s sister told CNN. She said the family had hoped for more land search efforts.
“Talking to people actually on the beach. They are doing so but with limited results,” Cruz said last week.
Suarez and Devil checked into their shared room on June 22nd and were scheduled to depart last Saturday, according to the hotel.
You can read more about them here.
Anyone who may have information on the couple’s disappearance have been urged to contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-TIPS (8477) or their nearest police station.
TSR STAFF: Christina C! @cdelafresh
