The Daily Progress reports that a four day search for a missing Charlottesville native cost Illinois taxpayers $250,000.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
If anyone sees Anu Solanki, please ask her for a few dollars back. Hell, give her a mouthful for all I care.
More details from the article:
Cunningham said Solanki told police she was “dissatisfied with her marriage” and wanted to leave the Chicago area and her husband.She explained to authorities that she left the car by the river because she knew that her husband, Dignesh Solanki, would find it there, he said.
Police said that Solanki and Jani have had a relationship for more than a year. Solanki told police it was only a “close friendship,” Cunningham said.
Solanki’s family and husband had no knowledge of her relationship with Jani or that she was unhappy in her marriage.
She and her husband were married in May. She moved to Illinois from Charlottesville, where she attended school. Her family still lives in the Charlottesville area.
The idol she said she was disposing of in the river was from their wedding ceremony. It was not found during the investigation.
For two days after Solanki’s disappearance, police searched the river and surrounding area for her. Her family had been concerned that she might have slipped into the river or been kidnapped.
Seriously, what do you say to someone like this if you meet them at a party?
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Can I recommend a little light reading for this chick?
http://www.amazon.com/How-Disappear-Completely-Never-Found/dp/0806515597
While I’m sure it would have come in handy earlier, she still might be able to put it to good use
Oh my God! She’s 2o4’s “special guest”!
I am all for the state suing her and the guy’s (who she ran away with) ass to recover the money. That will teach ‘em a lesson that life is not a Bollywood movie.
Damn Sil, I’m busted.
just kidding, it’s the estranged wife of the guy we do not mention by name, but whos name resembles the description of a popular flavor of gum.
narh I am just kidding
It is the…
H-D I think she read that book?!
that was mean. also very funny.
Wait a minute: how can an adult be required to notify the state when they want to leave their home for a few days, or even forever? This isn’t North Korea, after all. She didn’t stage a kidnapping/murder/disappearance, she just left. She is allowed to do so and doesn’t need anyone’s permission. (This happens, by the way, all the time and I have no idea why this case is any different, except the timing or the particulars got it caught it up into national news.)
No crime was committed unless it was a criminal amount of stupidity on her husband’s part. I bet one of the main reasons she left is that he was clueless to her needs, feelings, or state of mind…
From above….
“Police said that she made a phone call to a friend while on her way to the river to say that a car with four men inside had been following her.
It was later determined that while she made that call, she was actually nearly 60 miles away from where she said she was.”
She owes the government 250K, our tax money, for false statements which would obviously create police involvement. Not my job to subsidize some little dipshit that cannot handle her affairs.
OneGuy- Maybe he was just really bad in bed. Let this be a lesson to all you men.
While I do feel like we shouldn’t have to foot the bill for this, it just happens to be one of MANY things I think US tax payers shouldn’t have their hard earned money cover. She is dumb, but maybe, just maybe better detectives wouldn’t have let it get so far before realizing she wasn’t actually kidnapped. I mean they didn’t even find the “wedding idol” she threw in the water.
All in all I really think we could solve this by actually causing her to disappear and not looking for her. It would repay her debt to the taxed. (I am of course kidding)
I love your suggestion Lu. Very funny… an equitable.
Maybe she wanted to be “boinked by the river.” Is that name of a country song.
she should only have to make restitution if she did something illegal, IMO. like that bug-eyed runaway bride from a few years ago. she lied to police about being kidnapped and ended up having to pay back some, if not all, of the cost of her search (plus community service). but telling your friend on the phone that four guys are following you isn’t the same as lying to the cops. maybe the state can file a civil suit against her to recover the money.
The phone call about the ‘four guys following her’, coupled with the fact that she left her car with the engine running down by the river where she knew it would create suspicion makes the consequential police search reasonably forseeable, and thus she can be held to have intended it. A simple “I’m leaving you, don’t try to look for me” note might have aided her getaway without staging a possible abduction. I wonder if there was/is a life insurance policy, and she turned up before a claim could be made?