Police: Pilot Kidnapped Foreign Student and Tried to Send Him 'Back to China'

[jpak]

Source: The Daily Beast

A pilot and certified flight instructor in California allegedly kidnapped a foreign student, brought him to an airport, and tried to have him sent “back to China.” Police say Jonathan McConkey worked with his assistant, Kelsi Hoser, to orchestrate the abduction at the IASCO Flight Training school in Redding. The pair’s unwitting victim, Tianshu Shi, was reportedly one of dozens of Chinese nationals with student visas training at the school. McConkey and Hoser allegedly showed up at Shi’s place of residence late Thursday and notified him they were “deporting” him before turning up again the next morning to force Shi into a car. McConkey allegedly “battered” the student and told him he’d suffer further violence if he didn’t go along with the plan.

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[lapfog_1]

1. The right has collectively lost their minds! - n/t

[elleng]

10. Yes, encouraged by repugs led by trump.

[yurbud]

20. like Bush only worse, Trump has empowered fearful white people of limited intelligence to cut loose

THE PURGE was essentially a documentary.

[Lucky Luciano]

2. The fuhrer is to blame for their bravado. nt

[DRoseDARs]

3. How... did they think this "deportation" was going to work? Truly mystified here.

If it's a small flight school, they don't have any trans-Pacific aircraft. Even if they did, they were getting clearance to land in China how exactly? And forcing the student onto a commercial flight or freight flight? Um, what? Security checks abound? Were these guys on meth the whole time? And having a student visa means legally here. My gawd the stupid it burns.

[defacto7]

5. Maybe to much cosmic ray exposure in the upper atmosphere.

Makes as much sense. The stupid is powerful in these guys.

[IronLionZion]

14. The pair's plan, Shi told the Searchlight, had been to fly him to the Bay Area, then put him on anot

The pair’s plan, Shi told the Searchlight, had been to fly him to the Bay Area, then put him on another plane to China.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2018/05/27/a-pilot-kidnapped-a-foreign-student-and-tried-to-deport-him-back-to-china-police-say/?utm_term=.85a1b38948c4

The vigilante deporters:

[DRoseDARs]

15. God, it just gets dumber...

So they were going to try to load him onto another plane. So either they're too stupid to know security would catch them then, flight crew would catch them, other passengers would catch them, or they had additional help that would allow them to bypass all that. Also, posing as government agents from the sounds of the one line he threw at the student.

And what the hell is China doing, sending students to a US flight school that have less than adequate mastery of English?

What a fucking mess, and I'm sure as the investigation continues it's going to get uglier.

[Midnight Writer]

4. He must be running for Congress.

[procon]

6. Their legal problems should give them decades to study the difference

between Trump's tweets and real laws.

[Judi Lynn]

7. Pilot, assistant arrested for kidnapping student to deport him back to China

2 hrs ago

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© CBS News Jonathan McConkey, right, and his assistant, Kelsi Hoser
REDDING POLICE DEPARTMENT

Police in Northern California have arrested two people for allegedly kidnapping a flight school student and attempting to deport him back to China. The victim ultimately managed to thwart the alleged abduction by contacting his brother in China, who alerted police.

In a news release, the Redding Police Department says that the victim, Tianshu Shi, was a student pilot at a local flight school. His brother, Baihan Fu, who lives in Shanghai, said Shi told him on Friday morning that somebody had arrived at his apartment "to take him away." Fu reported the alleged kidnapping attempt to the police.

Jonathan McConkey, a pilot and instructor at IASCO Flight Training school, is accused of carrying out the would-be kidnapping with his assistant, Kelsi Hoser. The two allegedly showed up at Shi's home in an attempt to send him "back to China," police said.

"When Shi refused, McConkey battered him, and threatened physical violence if he did not go with them," the police said in a statement. "Shi ultimately left with them in fear for his safety and was transported to the Redding Municipal Airport to be sent back to China."

More:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/pilot-assistant-arrested-for-kidnapping-student-to-deport-him-back-to-china/ar-AAxSvpB?li=BBnbcA1&srcref=rss

[DoctorJoJo]

8. The Ugly American is Back In Full Force, Thanks to This Pretendisent!

[Turbineguy]

9. Will Trump pay

for their lawyers?

Or maybe will Fox News pay?

[lkinwi]

11. You can't make this sh*t up. 🤯🤯🤯

[BumRushDaShow]

12. Here is the original WaPo article

A pilot kidnapped a foreign student and tried to deport him to China, police say

by Avi Selk May 27 at 4:13 PM

California police say they thwarted a vigilante deportation attempt last week — in which a pilot allegedly kidnapped a foreign student, took him to an airport and tried to send him “back to China.” Jonathan McConkey, a pilot and certified flight instructor, is accused of orchestrating the kidnapping with his assistant, Kelsi Hoser, a ground instructor. Both reportedly worked at the IASCO Flight Training school in Redding, Calif.

Among IASCO’s students were dozens of Chinese nationals with student visas, according to court records. KRCR News 7 reported the school contracted with China’s civil aviation authority to train its new pilots, one of whom was apparently Tianshu “Chris” Shi. Shi, 21, told the Record Searchlight that he had been in the United States for about seven months — living with several other IASCO trainees at an apartment in Redding. It was there, police said, that McConkey and Hoser came for the student. The pair first showed up at the apartment on Thursday night, according to a police statement.

Shi told the Searchlight that they ordered him to pack and be ready to leave for China at daybreak. “I said I didn’t receive any documents from China,” he said. McConkey and Hoser didn’t explain why they wanted him out of the country, the student said, and police have not explained either. But Shi told the Searchlight that he had been forbidden to fly two months earlier, and suspected that his limited English was the problem.

An unrelated federal lawsuit, filed last year by a former instructor, alleges that many of IASCO’s Chinese students spoke so little English that they could not safely fly — that one had nearly crashed into another plane because he had misunderstood his teacher’s instructions. The lawsuit predates Shi’s training, and does not mention Hoser or McConkey, who is reportedly a 48-year-old manager at the flight school.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2018/05/27/a-pilot-kidnapped-a-foreign-student-and-tried-to-deport-him-back-to-china-police-say/?utm_term=.de2264f50812

Here is a pic of one of the douchebags who needs to be removed from America and sent back to whatever European country vomited his family here -

[Mosby]

13. phx media had a local helicopter pilot who started doing crazy stuff

Turned out he was on meth.

Name was jerry foster.

[keithbvadu2]

16. Who was supposed to pay for this flight to China?

[diane in sf]

17. The kidnappers are nuts, but students in China cheating on their English tests is really

Common. Where I teach, we retest them to find out how bad their English really is.

[Demsrule86]

19. Really? They kidnapped him.

[Midnight Writer]

18. So, the liberal Deep State FBI persecute another very fine person for political gain.