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By Associated Press

Court blocks Dutch student's arrest in Holloway's disappearance No Arrest For Van der Sloot

Published: Fri, February 15, 2008 - 6:14 am Last Updated: Fri, February 15, 2008 - 6:23 am

NEW YORK (AP) - An appeals court has denied a request by Aruban
prosecutors to arrest a Dutch college student in the disappearance
of Natalee Holloway.
The prosecutors had appealed a decision earlier this month by an
Aruban judge that Joran Van der Sloot could not be arrested based
on statements he made in a secretly recorded video. The tape showed
Van der Sloot saying he was with the Alabama teenager when she died
in the Dutch Caribbean island and that he had a friend dump her
body at sea.
The appeals court ruled that Van der Sloot's statements were
inconsistent with other evidence and insufficient to hold him.
The 20-year-old Van der Sloot was detained previously in the
case but was released for insufficient evidence.
Holloway, an 18-year-old from Mountain Brook was last seen in
May 2005 leaving a bar with Van der Sloot and two Surinamese
brothers on the final night of a high school graduation trip to the
island.

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asda Says:

Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 8:07 am

I agree Carl ........... If everyone in the US said that they no longer would go to Aruba then they would hang this guy….. It would make their island go into an economic tail-spin.

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carl Says:

Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 7:45 am

I see aruba has some judges that they,like ourselves,need to put in the unemployment line.If enough americans would boycott aruba ,I am sure there would be a more intense investigation into this case.Evidently the only thing they will consider is a certified written confession wittnessed by the pope and billy graham and every head of state in the world.

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