What role does your friend, who has since disappeared, play in the Gabby Petito case? The local FBI is looking for the young man – now with an arrest warrant.
Denver – An arrest warrant has been issued against the missing friend of the allegedly killed Gabby Petito in the USA. This was announced by the local FBI in Denver.
The 23-year-old is wanted for bank fraud, it said in a corresponding court document from the district court in the US state of Wyoming. The young man used an EC card without authorization between August 30 and September 1. The document didn’t say who the card belonged to. However, it is said that the 23-year-old withdrew around $ 1,000.
The FBI asked anyone who knew anything about the friend’s role or whereabouts in the Gabby Petito case to contact the investigators. The police in Florida, where the couple lived, had been looking for the 23-year-old in a nature reserve in the past few days. The court document is dated Wednesday.
The Gabby Petito case has also attracted a great deal of attention worldwide in the United States. Petito and her boyfriend had set out on a trip through the USA that summer, which they had documented on social networks. Petito’s boyfriend eventually returned from the trip without his girlfriend. The 22-year-old’s body was discovered in Wyoming over the weekend. After the autopsy of the body, the investigators assume a homicide. There is now no trace of her boyfriend – his parents reported him missing last week. dpa
