Thursday, June 09, 2005

 

Parents be careful when you SEND your girls on trips!


. pic Posted by Hello Natalee Holloway ....

. The Latest Missing Girl ......

. Aruba Police Arrest 3 more in Missing of teen age student girl.

. By MICHAEL NORTON, AP Writer
ORANJESTAD, Aruba - Aruban police arrested three men Thursday who acknowledged giving a ride to an Alabama teenager the night she disappeared on this Dutch Caribbean island, officials said.

The three, described by authorities earlier as witnesses and "persons of interest," had been released last week after being questioned about 18-year-old Natalee Holloway.
They told police they dropped off Holloway, of Mountain Brook, Ala., at her hotel in the early hours of May 30, but Holiday Inn employees say security cameras did not record her return.
Police also impounded a gray Honda car. Holloway's friends reported last seeing her leave a nightclub in a silver car.
"The three people have been arrested as suspects," chief government spokesman Ruben Trapenberg told The Associated Press. He did not elaborate.
Attorney General Caren Janssen said the three were arrested at 6 a.m. She refused to name them, but authorities previously described the three as students — two Surinamese brothers and the son of a Dutch justice official studying to be a judge.
The Dutch detainee, a student at Aruba International School, left his home in the middle-class Montana neighborhood of Oranjestad on Thursday with his head covered in a blue-and-green striped towel.
Police identified the Surinamese brothers only as Satish and Deepak K.
Janssen refused to say whether the three were connected to two former hotel security guards detained earlier in Holloway's disappearance. A judge ruled Wednesday there was sufficient cause to hold the two ex-guards.
The judge's decision means authorities could detain Nick John, 30, and Abraham Jones, 28, for nearly four months while prosecutors investigate possible murder and kidnapping charges, defense attorneys said. Neither man has been formally charged.
John's lawyer, Noriana Pietersz, said she spoke to her client in jail Thursday.
"I have decided not to demand the immediate release of my client," she said. "We prefer to let the prosecution investigate, confident that my client will be released by Wednesday" when a judge will decide whether to extend his detention.
Holloway vanished while on a five-day trip with 124 classmates and seven chaperones celebrating their high school graduation.
The night she disappeared, Holloway ate and danced at Carlos' n Charlie's bar and restaurant. She did not show up for her return flight hours later, and police found her passport in her hotel room with her packed bags.
Police and the FBI said a lack of any solid leads was hindering progress in their search for Holloway.
Authorities have not said Holloway was a victim of foul play and have not ruled out any possibilities, including that she may have drowned.
The Aruba government and local tourism organizations have offered a $20,000 reward for information leading to Holloway's rescue, her family and benefactors in Alabama have offered an additional $30,000, and Carlos' n Charlie's donated $5,000 — for a total of $55,000.


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