A one-time professional poker player who is the chief suspect in the murder of American woman Natalee Holloway arrived on US soil Thursday to face fraud charges.
A mugshot of Joran van der Sloot, left, after his arrest in Peru for the murder of Stephanie Flores. He has long been the prime suspect in the disappearance of American woman Natalee Holloway, right, in Aruba in 2005.
Joran van der Sloot was handed to US authorities at Jorge Chavez International Airport in Callao in Peru, where he was serving a 28-year prison sentence for the murder of another woman, Stephany Flores.
His plane touched down at Shuttlesworth Airport in Birmingham, Al. at around 2:30pm. The Dutch national will be arraigned in a federal court in Birmingham Friday for extorting $25,000 from Holloway’s mother.
Holloway was 18 when she went missing on a senior class trip in Aruba in May 2005. Van der Sloot, the son of a local judge, met her in a bar on the island. She was last seen leaving in a car with him and two other men.
A mugshot of Joran van der Sloot, left, after his arrest in Peru for the murder of Stephanie Flores. He has long been the prime suspect in the disappearance of American woman Natalee Holloway, right, in Aruba in 2005.
Joran van der Sloot was handed to US authorities at Jorge Chavez International Airport in Callao in Peru, where he was serving a 28-year prison sentence for the murder of another woman, Stephany Flores.
His plane touched down at Shuttlesworth Airport in Birmingham, Al. at around 2:30pm. The Dutch national will be arraigned in a federal court in Birmingham Friday for extorting $25,000 from Holloway’s mother.
Holloway was 18 when she went missing on a senior class trip in Aruba in May 2005. Van der Sloot, the son of a local judge, met her in a bar on the island. She was last seen leaving in a car with him and two other men.