Lt. Ridge Alkonis is home with this family this weekend. He was released Friday and his wife and children were reunited with him outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles. He had been detained there since December 14, 2023.
Representative for the family of Lt. Ridge Alkonis says he has been released from detention in Los Angeles.
“This morning, after 537 days of unnecessary detention, the U.S. Parole Commission ordered Lt. Ridge Alkonis’ immediate release. He is now back home with his family, where… pic.twitter.com/jeFbRsFV3S
— Shannon Bream (@ShannonBream) January 12, 2024
This is a happy ending to a lousy story. I wrote about Alkonis a year ago in January 2023. At that time, Biden was scheduled to hold a summit with the Japanese prime minister. Senator Mike Lee followed the case and worked on getting Alkonis released from a Japanese prison.
Lt. Alkonis was…
