Joran van der Sloot charged with extrortion in Natalie Holloway case

WMBF News ^ | 06/03/10

[freespirited]

 

BIRMINGHAM, AL (WSFA) - The U. S. government has charged Joran van der Sloot with attempting to receive money in exchange for revealing the location of Natalee Holloway's body.  Van der Sloot has long been suspected in the 2005 disappearance of Holloway in Aruba.

Chilean police say they have detained van der Sloot in connection with the murder of a woman in Peru.

Police spokeswoman Macarena Olivares says van der Sloot has been taken into custody in Chile's capital of Santiago. Five years to the date after Holloway disappeared, van der Sloot was the last person seen with a Peruvian woman found dead in a Lima hotel room.

Below is the complaint filed in U. S. District Court. 

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA

CRIMINAL COMPLAINT (Amended)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

v. CASE NUMBER: MAG 1 0-117

JORAN VAN DER SLOOT,

defendant

I, William K. Bryan, the undersigned complainant, being duly sworn, state the following is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief: Count One

That on or about May 10, 20lO, the defendant, Joran van der Sloot, did obstruct, delay, and affect commerce and the movement of any article or commodity in commerce, by extortion and attempts to do so, in that, the defendant did knowingly and wilfully cause another person to wire transfer a partial payment of money ($15,000) from a financial institution in Birmingham, Alabama, to a financial institution in the Netherlands, after representing to the other person that he would provide the location ofNata lee Holloway's remains in Aruba and information regarding the circumstances of her death, upon receipt of $250,000 from the other person, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1951(a).

Count Two

That on or about May 10, 20 lO, the defendant, Joran van der Sioot, having devised or intending to devise any scheme and artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, did knowingly and with intent to defraud did knowingly and wilfully cause to be transmitted by means of wire communication in interstate and foreign commerce, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds, that being, a wire transfer in the amount of $15,000, from Birmingham, Alabama, to the Netherlands for the purpose of executing and attempting to execute such scheme and artifice, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343.

I further state that I am a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau ofInvestigation, and that this complaint is based on the facts set forth in the affidavit, which is attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference.

See Attachment" A"

Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence,

at Birmingham, Alabama Date

City and State

PAUL W. GREENE Chief United States Magistrate Judge

Name and Title of Judicial Officer PAUL W. GREENE FILED 2010 Jun-03 PM 03:46 U.S. DISTRICT COURT N.D. OF ALABAMA Case 2:10-mj-00117-PWG Document 8 Filed 06/03/10 Page 1 of 1

[hennie pennie]

Wouldn't the FBI have a copy of this on THEIR website????

Don't they also have a Press Releases webpage, too? I wonder why this is filled with errors???

[Col Frank Slade]

The dead girl's father is a famous Peruvian race car driver and a national hero of sorts.

This scum Vander Sloot is going to rot in Peru, I hope.

[nothingnew]

I like to see this spoiled POS rot in a Purvian jail for the rest of his life.

Freudian slip?

FMCDH(BITS)

[pepsionice]

Let’s imagine that you were still stupid and naive...as this Dutch kid tends to suggest...and think that nothing will ever happen to you again. So you’ve got the Holloway family and associates angry but not able to accomplish anything via lawful means. So they sit and watch you...and know your habits...and eventually know that you travel to places where no Dutch jurisdiction will apply. And perhaps...their anger is such...that they can see retribution in a fashion that most of us wouldn’t cross a line in doing. And va der Sloot awakens from some drug episode, to find a dead body in his room...and the necessity to escape as soon as possible.

I’m not suggesting this occurred...but some parts of this story leave you with suspicions. And Peru...isn’t exactly the place you want to be tried for any murder. He’ll never see the light of day...and he’ll never be able to pay anyone off...so he’s got the rest of his life (ever how short) to think about what he may or may not have done with either girl.

[hennie pennie]

I wonder who it was in Alabama who wired him ten grand???

[OrangeHoof]

Extrotion. Sounds nasty.

[JoeProBono]

[cubreporter]

I was thinking the same thing.

[laconic]

Your theory is plausible but the missing girl in Peru came from a good, established family from what I read. But I also read that she knew who Van der Sloot was and all about his background which makes it amazing to me that she would be in his company with anyone other than a platoon of heavily armed cops. But then again, I’m always amazed at the number of decent-appearing women who want to marry unrepetant criminals with a life prison sentence like the Menendez brothers.

[Richard Kimball]

If both of these were his handiwork, there are probably other girls who have also disappeared, but were not important enough to generate international publicity. A reporter recorded him offering to provide girls for prostitution.

[ScareyFast63]

Anyone curious as to how life in a Peruvian jail is? Rent a copy of “Midnight Express” and watch it. Story about a young boy who is imprisoned and what he has to go through.

There is a God, God does punish sinners, however he does it in his time, which, unfortunately does not coincide with our time. This time we get to see God's punishment.

[Polynikes]

I don't think those were the only ones. They were just he ones he got connected to. If he comes to trial watch him offer to give info on other killings in an attempt to plea bargain.

[Political Junkie Too]

Probably close, but that movie depicted a Turkish prison.

-PJ

[Shermy]

http://images2-telegraaf.nl/multimedia/archive/00702/newPic_606_jpg_702515i.jpg

Maybe you can use this Joran pic I found at a Dutch site.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Yep. I would start looking at where he was when girls started dying or disappearing.

[spectre]

And it was Beth Holloway who was being extorted & gave him the $15,000 so he could afford Peru..What a mess.

[SaraJohnson]

I wonder how many women this freak has knocked off.

[Cyber Liberty]

AP needs to send its copyboys over to this news outlet to learn some writin' skills. The AP story posted earlier had van der Sloot paying the $250,000.

[Cyber Liberty]

Maybe Orly Taitz wrote it?

[ErnBatavia]

"I not sure how you say "Bubba hurt butt" in Peruvian....."