Cops have named person of interest in the case of Sudiksha Konanki, a University of Pittsburgh student who went missing while on a spring break holiday in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Loudoun County,

Joshua Steven Riibe, 24, has been identified as the man seen hugging and walking hand-in-hand with the 20-year-old student just hours before she vanished in the Dominican Republic.

As the search for missing Loudoun County woman and University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki continues in the Dominican Republic, Virginia authorities named a “person of interest” in the case Wednesday.

Joshua Riibe, a 24-year-old tourist from Iowa, has come under the spotlight, with investigators naming him a 'person of interest.'

The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office in Virginia says that St. Cloud State University (SCSU) student Joshua Riibe has been identified as potentially the last person to have seen Sudiksha Konanki. Konanki is a Loudoun County resident and student at the University of Pittsburgh.

The desperate search for missing University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki in the Dominican Republic is ongoing -- and now, authorities in Virginia have zeroed-in on a person of interest.

Konanki, 20, an Indian national from Virginia, disappeared in the early hours of March 6 while on spring break with friends at the RIU Hotel & Resort in Punta Cana.

The footage shows the pair staggering while taking selfies in an early hours walk with pals at the same Domincan resort.