Fiancé's passport suspended

Police in Zanzibar have withheld Joe McCann’s passport while questioning him as a witness after Ashly Robinson, known online as Ashlee Jenae, died during their trip. (cbsnews.com) Robinson, 31, was found unresponsive in her room at the Zuri Zanzibar hotel and was declared dead on April 9, 2026, according to her family and Tanzanian authorities. ABC News reported that no charges had been filed against McCann as of April 15. (abcnews.com) Zanzibar police told CBS News that the couple had been arguing during the trip and that hotel staff moved McCann to a separate villa about a 10-minute walk away on the night of April 8. A hotel worker later found Robinson unresponsive in a closet with a belt around her neck, police said. (cbsnews.com) Authorities in Zanzibar said they were investigating the death as a possible suicide, while Robinson’s parents publicly rejected any conclusion and said they had not received confirmed answers from police. Her mother, Yolanda Denise Endres, told 6abc that “there is nothing that is confirmed.” (6abc.com) The case has turned into a cross-border consular matter because Robinson was a U.S. citizen who died in Tanzania, and her family said they traveled to Washington to seek help from the embassy. The U.S. State Department said it was monitoring the case, according to CBS News. (cbsnews.com) It has also become a dispute over evidence and timeline. Robinson’s father told CBS News that McCann contacted the family about 11 hours after the reported incident, and the family has asked investigators to review hotel security footage. (cbsnews.com) ABC News reported that Robinson had more than 100,000 Instagram followers and had posted from Tanzania days earlier, including photos tied to her 31st birthday trip and engagement. Her family said those posts and recent FaceTime calls made her appear happy in the days before her death. (abcnews.com) Zuri Zanzibar said in a statement to ABC News that it was “deeply saddened by a tragic incident involving one of our guests,” but the hotel did not answer the family’s questions directly, according to 6abc. (abcnews.com, 6abc.com) The next steps are procedural and slow: CBS News reported that investigators were waiting for autopsy results before deciding whether to release McCann’s travel documents, while Robinson’s family was preparing to go to Zanzibar themselves. For now, the central facts remain under investigation, and the family is still asking for a full accounting of what happened between April 8 and April 9. (cbsnews.com, 6abc.com)