Police re-arrest 3 suspects in case of missing U.S. teen

ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) — Three young men previously detained as suspects in the 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway were re-arrested Wednesday, the Aruban public prosecutor’s office said, citing new evidence in the case.

Holloway disappeared May 30, 2005, hours before she was to fly home to Alabama after a high school graduation trip to this Dutch Caribbean resort island. The 18-year-old was last seen in public leaving a bar with the three young men who are again suspects in her disappearance.

Dutch teenager Joran van der Sloot and two Surinamese brothers, Satish and Deepak Kalpoe, were arrested on suspicion of involvement in manslaughter and causing seriously bodily harm that caused the death of the American teenager, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

“The public prosecutor’s office has ordered their renewed arrest because further investigation into the disappearance has led to new incriminating evidence,” the prosecutor’s office said.

Van der Sloot was arrested in the Netherlands, where he is attending a university, and is expected to be extradited to Aruba. The Kalpoe brothers were arrested in Aruba.

All three young men previously have denied any role in Holloway’s disappearance. The brothers were expected to appear in an Aruban court Friday, when prosecutors planned to president new evidence to judge.

A court date in the island had not yet been set for van der Sloot.