ORANJESTAD, Aruba (22 June 2005) -- Natalee Holloway's family is preparing to file a lawsuit demanding that authorities give them the evidence gathered in the three weeks since the 18-year-old vanished. A court in Aruba is detaining four people. Three of them are believed to have spent time with Holloway on the night she disappeared. Meanwhile, Holloway's family hopes a Texas firm can help in the search for the missing teenager. Volunteers from Texas EquuSearch Mounted Search and Recovery Team plan to leave for Aruba Tuesday night to carry out a search of the island. Officials said the contingent will include 17 searchers and three search dogs. They'll bring with them sophisticated sonar units for boats. Holloway disappeared in the early hours of May 30, the last day of a five-day vacation with 124 students celebrating their high school graduation. She had been on a trip with other high school students and their chaperones. An Aruban judge ruled Monday that there's enough evidence to continue holding a disc jockey arrested in connection with the disappearance. Steve Gregory Croes, 26, is a disc jockey on a party boat. He was arrested on Friday. Steve Gregory Croes is escorted into the court house. (Oranjestad, Aruba) | | Natalee Holloway Croes arrived at his court hearing with his hands cuffed and his white T-shirt covering his face. After the half-hour appearance he was whisked away in a police car. The court ordered him held for eight days. Under Dutch law, which Aruba follows, authorities can detain people for up to 116 days without charging them. Croes was taken into custody early Friday, one day after he gave police a statement about Holloway's disappearance. Two Surinamese brothers and the 17-year-old son of a justice official in Aruba are also being held in the case. It's not clear how Croes is connected to the three. SOURCE - CNS |
