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Holloway Suspects Rearrested

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By MARGARET WEVER, The Associated Press

Published: November 22, 2007

ORANJESTAD, Aruba - Three young men previously detained as suspects in the 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway were rearrested Wednesday, the Aruban public prosecutor's office said, citing new evidence in the case.

Dutch teen Joran van der Sloot and two Surinamese brothers, Satish and Deepak Kalpoe, were arrested on suspicion of involvement in voluntary manslaughter and causing serious bodily harm that resulted in the death of Holloway, the public prosecutor's office said in a statement.

Holloway, of Mountain Brook, Ala., was last seen leaving a bar with the three men on May 30, 2005, hours before she was scheduled to board a plane home with high school classmates who were on the Dutch Caribbean island celebrating their graduation. She was 18 at the time.

Hundreds of volunteers, Aruban soldiers, police and FBI agents searched the island for the missing teen. Later efforts would include divers, Dutch F-16 jets equipped with search equipment, and specially trained dogs. No trace was ever found of her.

Van der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers were previously detained on suspicion of taking part in her death, but they denied involvement and a judge released them for lack of evidence.

Van der Sloot, 20, was rearrested in the Netherlands, where he was attending a university. The Kalpoe brothers - Deepak, 24, and Satish, 21 - were taken into custody in Aruba.

Authorities "ordered their renewed arrest because further investigation into the disappearance has led to new incriminating evidence," the office said without providing further details.

Hans Mos, chief prosecutor in Aruba, declined to discuss the new evidence or any other details about the case.

"Our intention is to keep them in detention for a longer period," he said.

Van der Sloot's mother, Anita, insisted her son had not been arrested but was only detained for more questioning.

She said he was not put in handcuffs.

"What they want to do with Joran is to bring him to Aruba for a final reconstruction," Anita van der Sloot said.

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