New Jersey couple goes missing on vacation in Barbados – New York Post

A New Jersey couple vanished while on vacation in Barbados after they rented a jet ski and never returned, according to police and family.

Oscar Suarez, 32, and Magdalena Devil, 25, of Essex County were last seen around 2:30 p.m. Monday when they rented the jet ski from an operator at Holetown Beach on the west coast of the Caribbean island and went out to sea, the Royal Barbados Police force said Tuesday.

When they took off, both Suarez and Devil were wearing life jackets, authorities said.

Police say when the pair did not return to shore at their scheduled time around 2:55 p.m., “the operator became worried and contacted other operators in the area to carry out a search, but they were not sighted.”

The matter was then reported to the authorities and the Police Marine Unit along with the Barbados Coast Guard conducted a search of the area up to the Bridgetown Port several miles away.

Authorities were unable to locate either the couple or the jet ski, said police, who noted that investigations are continuing.

Suarez and Devil had been staying at the all-inclusive Discovery Bay Hotel — and management there told police that neither guest had returned to the hotel.

The couple, who family members say have been together for roughly a year, checked into the hotel in Holetown on Saturday and were scheduled to stay for a week.

Suarez’s sister, Susanna Cruz, posted on Facebook that she and her mother were on their way to Barbados.

“We pray to arrive there to some good news about Oscar and Maggie,” Cruz wrote as she expressed her thanks for people’s “support and prayers.”

Cruz told The Post on Wednesday: “We are worried and overwhelmed.”

Suarez is a father of two — a 10-year-old son and a 5-year-old daughter from a previous relationship — and works as an assistant director of dining services at a Montclair company called Compass Group, while Devil is a baker.

“We are devastated,” Suarez’s cousin David Monzon told The Post. “You hear stories like this, but it never really hits you until it’s your family. We just want answers.”

Monzon said Suarez’s children, Zaliahs and Tatiana, have been asking for their dad since Monday.

“He never goes a day without FaceTiming his kids,” said Monzon, who called Suarez “an amazing father, a brother, a friend.”