US college students arrested abroad fight to get home after passports seized: ‘Done nothing wrong’

The two American college students arrested in Denmark following an alleged dispute with an Uber driver are facing yet another hurdle abroad as they try to return home to the United States. 

Owen Ray, a 19-year-old studying at Miami University in Ohio, and his friend have reportedly had their passports seized by Danish authorities, following their release from prison on Monday. 

“We remain deeply concerned that Danish authorities have confiscated his passport and will not allow him to return to the United States – something we understand is unusual in Danish court proceedings,” Ray’s parents, Andy Ray and Sara Buchen-Ray, said in a statement to Fox News Digital. 

Owen Ray smiles in an undated photograph. Ray and his friend are charged with simple assault following a dispute with an Uber driver while the pair were traveling in Denmark. (Courtesy of the Ray Family)

Ray’s Denmark-based attorney did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment. 

“We are aware of media reports of two U.S. citizens detained in Denmark,” the U.S. State Department said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “Staff at our embassy in Copenhagen are providing consular assistance. The Department has no higher priority than the safety and security of U.S. citizens abroad.”

Miami University in Ohio did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment. 

“I just hope that Denmark and the legal authorities here are able to – and the U.S. government can help us and do what they can to help us be released by Easter, so I can be home with my family,” Ray told “Good Morning America.”

“I think the best case would be for the Danish police and the prosecutor to drop the case at this point, because we’re completely innocent, and for them to return us our passports and allow us to head back to the United States.”