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Van der Sloot victim video. This photo is from the hotel's camera and shows Joran van der Sloot exiting the room with Stephany Flores left inside. The video reveals both the suspect and Stephany Flores entering the room which became the murder scene. "He speaks Spanish fluently and we took a statement from him in Spanish, where he denies any involvement and the charges brought against him," Chilean Investigative Police Officer Fernando Ovalle Gatica said in a statement. "Naturally, he needs to face the murder that took place here and if the courts find him responsible for that murder, he...

Man injured in raid targeting gun, drug trafficking and worse 07/08/2003 By News Channel 3 / azfamily.com Staff PHOENIX -- More than 500 federal, state and local law enforcement officers armed with 40 search warrants and 36 arrest warrants fanned out across Arizona Tuesday . Tom Mangan, spokeman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, said the raids are the culmination of a two-year undercover investigation targeting firearms trafficking, drug trafficking, bomb-making and murder-for-hire. Mangan says officers intended to seize machine guns, bombs, bomb-making materials and drugs during the raids, which focused in part on outlaw motorcycle gangs....