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Posted on 08/26/2005 4:40:09 PM PDT by TexKat
Surinamese Deepak Kalpoe, 21, arrives to court in Oranjestad, Aruba, Friday, Aug. 26, 2005. Aruban police arrested Kalpoe and his brother Satish, 18, along with a third person according to government spokesman Ruben Trapenberg, saying he doesn't know if the arrests are connected to the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. The two brothers had been previously detained and released. (AP Photo/Pedro Famous Diaz)
Surinamese Satish Kalpoe, 18, front, gets in a car to go to court in Oranjestad, Aruba, Friday, Aug. 26, 2005. Two Surinamese brothers, Satish and Deepak Kalpoe, who had been detained and released in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway were arrested again Friday based on new evidence, officials said. The brothers were detained on suspicion of involvement, with unidentified 'other people,' in premeditated murder and rape, the prosecutor's office said. Person to the right is unidentified. (AP Photo/Farrah Boekhoudt)
Three Are Released in Aruba Case Ping.
Mr. Richardson made it very clear that neither the investigation nor the case is over. Joran van der Sloot, Satish, and Deepak Kalpoe are all still persons of interest and they can all still be called in for further questioning and rearrested if required.
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Keep the faith!
Da Plane, Da Plane...
This absolutely is the most corrupt government investigation, a total cluster F^%*
As a parent, I would pull my daughter out of that university so fast, her head would spin.
Natalee Holloway: Beth Twitty Press Conference Set For 5PM EST Today
I've been informed there will be a press conference by Beth Twitty at 5 PM today at the Wyndham Hotel in Aruba.
As for press coverage of the released suspects, media is said to be being given a very short photo opportunity upon their release. The word on the street in Aruba is that authorities are also very sensitive to the actions of American media in this regard. Potentially, any perceived harassment of the suspects by media outlets could result in certain news organizations being forced to leave the island.
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Natalee Holloway: Witness Has Left The Island
Below From Amigoe - August 12 - with no suspects and no witnesses, it appears the Natalee Holloway investigation is now back to square one.
ARUBA – The Public Prosecutor (OM) told the lawyers that there will be no interrogation of the gardener in the Holloway case. The man had left Aruba, because he didn’t have legal papers.
The examining magistrate was supposed to talk to the man today. He was the one that said that he saw Joran van der Sloot and the brothers Kalpoe with Natalee near the pond next to the Racquet Club. Based on this testimony, the pond was completely drained. There was nothing in the pond that had to do with the disappearance of the girl. The man was called last week to come tell his story again. Since this is not the case anymore, the testimony is up in the air. It is now more difficult for the OM to arrange evidence against Joran van der Sloot, who is not cooperating, because he does not talk.
Natalee Holloway Exclusive Report
While it is now well-known that all three suspects in the Natalee Holloway disapearance have been released, I can now report that another detainee, Freddy Arambatsis-Zedan was previously released discreetly without any charges being brought as it seems there was nothing substantial to the allegations, reported here, for which he was thought to be a suspect.
It's my understanding that Arambatsis-Zedan will likely leave the island, if he hasn't left already. It has now been three months since the disappearance Natalee Holloway and not a single suspect is in custody.
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BeachBumGirl wrote:
I have also heard about the digging going on near the pond by the fishermans hut. My mother spends HOURS on the scared monkeys sight and has made friends with alot of people from Aruba in the forum. One of them is an investigator. The idea to dig near the pond came about when residents complained of a stench coming from that area. News crews, media and cameras are not allowed.
I dont know what to think or how to feel. Lets pray for the best.
Dear TexKat,
I highly commend you on an outstanding job on this thread. I tip my hat to you Dear Lady, and you are a Super Trooper.
TexKat, I will sum it up, with one simple syllogism.
TexKat has class and talent and the freepers& the Free Republic need Texkat.
We all should not all give up, for their may be some type of justice in the making. Only time and perseverance will tell.
Respectfully Your's
NSNR-CSAOTL
Surinam citizens Satish Kalpoe, 21, left, and his brother Deepak, 18, are conditionally released from the KAI jail in San Nicolas, Aruba, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2005. The Kalpoes, who were arrested then released, but later re-arrested in connection with the disappearance of American teen Natalee Holloway, remain suspects but are free under the condition that they not leave the island and remain available to the police. (AP Photo/Pedro Famous Diaz)
Dutch teen Joran van der Sloot, 18, enters his family's car as his mother Anita closes the door after he was conditionally released from the KAI jail in San Nicolas, Aruba, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2005. Sloot, who was jailed since June 9 in connection with the disappearance of American teen Natalee Holloway, remains a suspect but is free under the condition that he not leave the island and remain available to the police. (AP Photo/Leslie Mazoch)
Dutch teen Joran van der Sloot, 18, walks with his mother Anita as his father Paul follows at left as Joran is conditionally released from the KAI jail in San Nicolas, Aruba, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2005. Sloot, who was jailed since June 9 in connection with the disappearance of American teen Natalee Holloway, remains a suspect but is free under the condition that he not leave the island and remain available to the police. (AP Photo/Leslie Mazoch)
Dutch teen Joran van der Sloot, 18, hugs his father Paul as his mother Anita looks on after he was conditionally released from the KAI jail in San Nicolas, Aruba, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2005. Sloot, who was jailed since June 9 in connection with the disappearance of American teen Natalee Holloway, remains a suspect but is free under the condition that he not leave the island and remain available to the police. (AP Photo/Leslie Mazoch)
Thank you NSNR for your kind words. Texkat also needs FR, it has been and is a wonderful source of info.
I want to vomit.
Surinam citizens Satish Kalpoe, 21, center, and his brother Deepak, 18, right, walk with their lawyers David Koch, far left, and Ruud Oomen, second left, as they are conditionally released from the KAI jail in San Nicolas, Aruba, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2005. The Kalpoes, who were arrested then released, but later re-arrested in connection with the disappearance of American teen Natalee Holloway, remain suspects but are free under the condition that they not leave the island and remain available to the police. (AP Photo/Leslie Mazoch)
Please excuse this stupid question.
If Beth speaks at 5 pm Aruba time, what time is that EST?
Thanks.
Aruba Prosecutors Appeal Teens' Release
Saturday, September 03, 2005
ORANJESTAD, Aruba — Aruban prosecutors appealed court rulings ordering the release Saturday of a Dutch teenager and two friends jailed in the disappearance of an Alabama (search) woman.
Despite the order — and the impending release — police said the investigation into the woman's widely publicized disappearance will continue.
"The case of Natalee Holloway has not concluded with these [planned] releases," Adolfo Richardson (search), the police officer in charge, told The Associated Press.
Holloway's family and others have criticized the investigation, leading residents of this relatively crime-free Dutch Caribbean island to fear for their tourism industry and protest they are being unfairly targeted.
Many point out that no Aruban has been linked to the disappearance: those jailed are the Dutch teenager and two Surinamese men who were last seen with Holloway in the early hours of May 30.
Prosecutors late Friday appealed the judge's order allowing the conditional release Saturday of the Surinamese brothers.
Judge R. Smid ruled that Deepak Kalpoe (search), 18, and Satish Kalpoe, 21, could go free on the condition they remain on the island and available to police, said their attorneys Ruud Oomen and David Kock.
The judge agreed to their release "since the brothers were free for almost two months and made no attempt to evade justice," Oomen said.
"They maintain their innocence very, very emphatically," he added.
The court on Thursday had ordered Joran van der Sloot, now 18, freed under the same conditions.
Attempts to reach prosecutors for comment were unsuccessful.
Lawyers on the island were divided over what the releases might mean.
"The prosecution doesn't have the smoking gun. There is a fair chance they are innocent, even if a great part of public opinion has already convicted them," said Lincoln Gomez, an Oranjestad defense lawyer not connected to the case.
"People say: 'It has to be them. If not them, then who? Somebody has to be the bad guy.'"
Another defense attorney, Ricardo Yarzagaray, said the release did not mean the men would no longer be part of the case.
"You must remember that a suspect may be walking free but he is still a suspect," Under Dutch law that prevails on the island, a suspect can be summoned to court even two years after being freed from jail, he said.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,168408,00.html
Please let the Holloways and Twittys know that we are still here. Standing in support of them and their pursuit of their daughter. I am/will still follow this case.
Thanks TexKat. I'm still here, also. The last stanza has NOT been sung.
Presently it is 4:09 p.m. in Aruba.
Muchas gracias!
By Eric Heyl TRIBUNE-REVIEW Friday, September 2, 2005
It's outrageous, I tell you.
The U.S. Department of State is blatantly ignoring a request from the Pennsylvania Senate to issue a travel warning to the strife-torn island of Aruba.
Turns out the General Assembly did more in July than merely vote itself pay increases of up to 34 percent. Four senators -- including Republican Jane Orie of McCandless -- also found time to introduce a resolution advising the State Department to finally take some action on Aruba.
Sitting north of Venezuela, the tiny Caribbean nation is thousands of miles from the district Orie or any other senator represents. But so perilous is any journey there these days that our legislators felt compelled to get involved in a treacherous situation extending beyond their districts' -- or even their nation's -- borders.
Aruba, after all, is chock full of such dangers as tropical, sunny weather.
Travelers there often are accosted by white sand beaches and clear ocean water.
It's a place where, lacking less suitable accommodations, visitors frequently are forced to stay in world-class hotels, often subsisting for weeks at a time on nothing but gourmet cuisine.
Aruba also is where an 18-year-old Alabama tourist, Natalee Holloway, mysteriously vanished in May. This raised the number of mysterious tourist disappearances on the island this year to an incredibly alarming, deeply disturbing total of, uh, one.
Yet despite these obvious hazards, despite prodding from our globally aware state senators, the State Department has yet to advise the citizenry that it might be a good idea to avoid Aruba.
Instead, the State Department has wasted its time warning of the land mines and unexploded ordnance in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
It has spent precious moments cautioning that Sudan still isn't safe, despite the recent peace treaty that threatens to end the country's civil war.
It feels obligated, for some reason, to ignore Aruba while pointing out that terrorist groups might be planning future attacks, possibly against U.S. interests, in Uzbekistan.
It also has prohibited minor dependents from accompanying U.S. government employees to the U.S. embassy in Cote d'lvoire, a place many Americans still believe is not a nation but an expensive type of baguette.
Perhaps Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is embarrassed that the possible pitfalls of an Aruba vacation have to be pointed out to her by the likes of Orie, who, let's face it, isn't as well-known on the international stage.
If that's the case, Rice should put aside her ego and put the interests of potential Caribbean tourists first.
She should order her underlings to comply with the wishes of that international watchdog, the Pennsylvania Senate, and immediately issue an Aruba travel warning.
Even if it's only to warn of the risk of sunburn.
Eric Heyl is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review staff writer. He can be reached at eheyl@tribweb.com or (412) 320-7857.
Do you think FOX will air Beth's appearance in a few minutes?
Got away with it, didn't they?
How long before the next one, boys? Tonight?
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