Judge: Holloway Suspects To Stay In Jail
A judge Friday ordered an extended detention of two brothers held in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway after reviewing new evidence in the case of the missing teenager.
Surinamese brothers Satish and Deepak Kalpoe will be detained in separate jails for at least another eight days while prosecutors continue to pursue the investigation.
The brothers have been held since Wednesday on suspicion of involvement in Holloway's death.
Investigators are focusing in part on cell phone calls and text messages between the suspects, prosecutor Dop Kruimel told The Associated Press.
"It's part of the investigation," she said, declining to give further details. "We do everything we can to see what happened."
A third suspect, Joran van der Sloot, was expected to arrive in Aruba on Friday, a day after a judge in the Netherlands approved his arrest and transfer, the prosecutor's office said.
Van der Sloot will appear before a judge on Monday, Aruba's chief prosecutor Hans Mos told the Associated Press Friday.
Van der Sloot's lawyer, Rosemarie Arnold, played down the arrest during an interview with the CBS Early Show's Maggie Rodriguez.
"We heard that there was new evidence. We don't know what the evidence is. We know that it's not a body, and we don't even know if it has anything to do with Joran." Arnold told Rodriguez.
"When they arrest somebody in Aruba they could just doing it to detain them and question them and in this case that's what we expect to happen."
Arnold said that the statute of limiations on the case will expire at the end of this year, adding "they're just making a last ditch effort to get some more information."
All three men were previously held as suspects in the case but released for lack of evidence.
Holloway, of Mountain Brook, Ala., was last seen leaving a bar with the three on May 30, 2005, hours before she was scheduled to board a plane home with high school classmates celebrating their graduation on the Dutch Caribbean island. She was 18 at the time.
A search by hundreds of volunteers, soldiers, police and FBI agents - even Dutch air force planes - turned up no trace of her.
Natalee Holloway's father, Dave Holloway, said on Thursday that he plans to launch a new effort to find her remains off the island's coast, using private boats.
Holloway said that the re-arrest of three suspects in the case has renewed his optimism.
"It just gives us hope that they're still involved, and maybe we'll finally get some answers," Holloway told CBS News Correspondent Kelly Cobiella.
Prosecutors said Wednesday that they had ordered the three men re-arrested and disclosed that it had new evidence, although officials declined to provide any details.
Attorney David Kock, who represents the Kalpoe brothers, told an Aruba radio station Thursday that the arrests were "an action of despair."
"There was no reason for their arrest now," Kock said. "We will take all kinds of measures to give our clients their freedom as soon as possible."