Posted on 06/15/2005 9:14:53 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
ORANJESTAD, Aruba Jun 15, 2005 — The father of a 17-year-old Dutch youth who last was seen with a missing Alabama teenager near an Aruba beach is filing suit Wednesday to demand he be allowed to see his jailed son, police said.
The move comes the day after Aruban police came up empty-handed in a new search of a swampy beachfront popular with lovers. They were acting on information from a former security guard who said the Dutch boy and two Surinamese brothers may have lied to police about where they took 18-year-old Natalee Holloway.
The three were detained for questioning after she disappeared in the early hours of May 30, and were released. They were formally arrested on Thursday. The Surinamese brothers told police they had gone to a beach where the Dutch boy and Holloway were kissing and petting in the back of their car before they dropped the girl off.
The father, a high-ranking judicial official, "is going to file a motion to see his son," police spokesman Edwin Comemencia told The Associated Press. The son is an honors student at Aruba International School.
Judicial officials could not immediately be reached to explain Aruba's laws concerning the detention of minors and their rights.
On Tuesday, FBI agents and officers from the Miami-Dade police department brought two bloodhounds to help search an area of tropical vegetation at Malmok Beach, next to the Marriott Hotel, where firefighters pumped water from the site. At nightfall, they gave up the search.
"We didn't find anything," Comemencia said. He declined to say where investigators might look next.
The latest search came after a former hotel security guard who was released from custody Monday told reporters that he spoke with one of the Surinamese brothers who was detained in an adjacent jail cell.
Antonius "Mickey" John said 21-year-old Deepak Kalpoe told him that he, his younger brother and their Dutch friend lied about returning Holloway to her Holiday Inn hotel.
Instead, Kalpoe said, they dropped the Dutch youth and Holloway off near the Marriott, about 10 blocks north of the Holiday Inn, John said.
Kalpoe also allegedly told John that about an hour after dropping the couple off he received a cell phone text message from the Dutch teen, saying he would e-mail Kalpoe as soon as he got home. Kalpoe said he never received the promised message, John said.
Holloway vanished hours before she was expected at the airport to return home after a vacation with 124 classmates and seven chaperones celebrating their high school graduation in Mountain Brook, Alabama. Her U.S. passport and packed bags were found in her room.
The Surinamese brothers had told police that they last saw her being approached by a security guard in a black security jacket, which led to the arrests June 5 of two unemployed security guards who had worked at a hotel near the Holiday Inn. They were freed Sunday.
John swore he was never in the area at that time of the night and said that Kalpoe apologized to him in jail. "He told me, 'Sorry,' and told the police I should be free."
Attorney General Caren Janssen declined comment on John's statements.
No one has been charged in the case, and lawyers for the three youths and the two freed men all say their clients are innocent. Lawyers for the three young men have not returned messages seeking comment Tuesday and Wednesday.
Asked why police were searching Malmok Beach, Comemencia replied, "We got some information we needed to check." He would not say if authorities were acting on what John said. He also declined to comment on whether any of the three young men still in custody had changed their versions of what happened the night the teen disappeared.
In Mountain Brook, a family spokeswoman said she had not seen live TV coverage of the search.
"I'm not even watching it. I just can't," Marcia Twitty said.
Reporters from Aruban radio station Top 95 launched their own search before police arrived, finding a pair of torn pink-and-white polka dot panties and three condoms, two of them used, said one of the journalists, Albert Vrolijk.
He said they also found some duct tape wrapped around a tree. The reporters handed their findings over to police, who refused to comment.
Tourism Authority Managing Director Myrna Jansen-Feliciano told the AP that "the whole beach area is a place where couples go."
"It could be anybody's" panties and condoms, she said.
The release from jail of John and another former hotel security guard, Abraham Jones, 28, came after Holloway's mother, Beth Holloway Twitty, told The Associated Press on Sunday that she believed they were innocent but that the three other youths knew what happened to her daughter.
The excuse I hear is that they only have 2 homicides/year. I do think that their doing a cover-up in particular with the Dutch boy because of who his father is.
The cat killer.
Hmmmm. That would not raise any red flags with me .....were it not for the fact that there is a girl missing!
Great episode last night, wouldn't you agree?
Vic would have already beaten a confession out of the boys.
I really thought Glenn Close was going to tip Vic off about the upcoming investigation. Lem is screwed.
Glenn Close did a great job this season. I really thought she was going to suck the life out of the show, but she brought alot to it.
I agree wholeheartedly! In the end, Lem will be okay. Shane will do something to save him.
They're now apparently searching the Duth Boy's home and have towed away the family cars as well.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/LegalCenter/wireStory?id=851901
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