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FBI Agent Involvement- Holloway Case Links/Trans./threads
Bachus Press Conference Dec 16, 2005 TRANSCRIPT
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At my request, and let me go back and tell you my involvement in the Natalee Holloway case The day that Natalee or the day or the day after Natalee missed her flight, the Holloway family contacted me as their congressman and asked if I would help them in the search for Natalee. I immediately asked if the FBI was involved and I don't remember at this late date whether they asked me to talk to the FBI or whether I suggested the FBI to them, but I did call our american representative in Aruba and talked personally with him. I found out that the procedure would be for the aruban government to request the help of the FBI. I immediately placed that call, talked to two members of the aruban government and within probably six (6) hours, and I think there have been varying reports in the news media, but within six (6) hours there was a formal request from the aruban government to involve, at least within six (6) hours I had information and confirmation that the aruban government had requested the participation of the FBI. That was reported in the Birmingham News and (inaudible)
There have been people who have said Is this effort by the arubans simply an effort to mitigate the boycott or the bad publicity. I can't answer that, other than to say that they did not suggest this to me. This was my suggestion to them, that I would like them to come to the United States and meet with both State and Federal officials . I've also heard from time to time that the FBI is involved, they're in Aruba. On one or two occasions I had confirmation that six (6) agents were on the ground in Aruba. I've heard from time to time that the Arubans and the FBI were co-operating, weren't co-operating. I mainly heard that on tv. The FBI policy is mainly not to comment to me in an official nature, but I have asked them if the arubans are not co-operating with you, if they're (inaudible) you ethically, please let me know and they have never adivsed me of a lack of co-operation. I've seen those on the news media and I've simply not the person to say that those reports are or are not true .
What will be taking place today, in fact as we meet is, there were two things in my discussion with the arubans which I asked them and they asked me. I asked them to come to Washington to meet with State and Federal officials. They in fact told me that they had two (2) requests of me. One (1) was that I try to facilitate greater co-operation between them and the State Department and the FBI in that they had made requests of the State Department and the FBI in connection with interviewing witnesses here in this country.
http://www.refugeesunleashed.net/viewtopic.php?t=3493
From June 3, 2005 briefing at the State Department
MR. MCCORMACK: What I can share with you is that the Department learned on Tuesday, June 1st, that an American citizen was missing in Aruba. The citizen's name is Natalee Holloway and she was last seen on Monday night, I think, on May 31st. Natalee's family have arrived in Aruba and a consular officer from Curacao is in Aruba at this time and is in contact with the family. And we are making sure that we provide all possible assistance to the family and local authorities and would also note that the FBI is also on hand and cooperating with local authorities in the search effort. And beyond that, I can't really offer anything else, due to Privacy Act considerations.
Why don't we go in the back. Yes.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00076.htm
http://www.refugeesunleashed.net/viewtopic.php?t=4665
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Dicussion Threads re- FBI
Tuesday, June 07, 2005
Aruban police in unmarked cars accompanied by FBI agents made a pre-dawn raid at 5 a.m. Sunday, rousting two suspects aged 28 and 30 from their beds.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,158666,00.html
BACHUS STATEMENT ON MEETING
WITH ARUBAN OFFICIALS
WASHINGTON - Congressman Spencer Bachus, along with criminal justice and law enforcement officials, today met with Aruban authorities regarding the Natalee Holloway case. He released the following statement after the meeting:
“The day after Natalee’s disappearance, I contacted Aruban authorities and they agreed to invite the FBI to the island. It was at that time I established ongoing communications with those authorities. That communication has continued. As a result, an invitation was extended to them to come to Washington to review the Holloway investigation and answer our questions.
“The meetings today in Washington were not intended to be a substitute for meetings between the family and their representatives and Aruban officials. Meetings between the family representatives and Aruban officials were previously arranged and it is my understanding some of those meetings took place this week in Aruba.
“The meetings today were between state and federal law enforcement agencies and Aruban officials. The first meeting was with state officials and included Jefferson County District Attorney David Barber, Shelby County District Attorney Robert Owens and Alabama District Attorneys Association Investigator Russell Yawn.
“Also in a separate meeting with the Arubans - from the FBI - were Chris Gregorski, Acting Chief Violent Crimes Section, and Chip Burrus, Deputy Assistant Director of Criminal Investigation Division.
“The Aruban delegation included two law enforcement officers involved in the ongoing Holloway case, as well as representatives of the Aruban Prime Minister and Dutch Embassy. Adolfo Richardson was the senior Aruban police official in the investigation and took over the investigation after the retirement of Jon Vandor Stratten. Renato Emerencia is the police analyst who is responsible for the maintenance, organization and analysis of the evidence in the Natalee Holloway case. Other Aruban officials, including Deputy Police Chief Dompig, participated in today’s meeting by telephone from Aruba.
“We had a frank and open discussion regarding the progress of the investigation and of their efforts and intentions going forward. Disclosure of confidential information could compromise the investigation, and, therefore, I am not at liberty to share any information not previously released.
“The Arubans assured us the case is going forward with 14 investigators presently assigned. They also advised us that 40 percent of their annual law enforcement budget has been spent on this case. They did make one specific request of me: to facilitate greater cooperation and coordination with federal authorities. I will most certainly honor that request, and hopefully, the meeting with the FBI will be helpful in that regard.
“Our thoughts and prayers remain with Natalee and with the Holloway family.”
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anssen said FBI divers were in the country but had not yet conducted any searches of coastal waters.
Aruban police spokesman Edwin Comenencia said earlier that FBI divers had conducted searches but suspended them on Wednesday because they had covered the area they set out to.
Judy Orihuela, FBI spokeswoman in Miami, said two FBI divers traveled to Aruba over the weekend and returned to the U.S. early this week. "They were asked to do some site survey," Orihuela said. "They never got in the water." Orihuela said there are five FBI agents in Aruba observing the investigation.
Oduber said Aruba has "splendid contacts" with U.S. law enforcement agencies. The prime minister also said he had been in touch with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the governor of Alabama and other officials.
http://www.billingsgazette.com/newdex.php?display=rednews/2005/06/10/build/world/94-aruba-arrest.inc
By MICHAEL NORTON Associated Press Writer
ORANJESTAD, Aruba Jun 7, 2005 —
Two men charged in Natalee Holloway's disappearance lost their jobs as security guards at a hotel near the one in which the Alabama teenager was staying the day before she vanished, a police officer said Tuesday.
The suspects lost their jobs when their company's contract expired with the hotel, which was closed for renovation, on May 29, the day before the 18-year-old honors student disappeared during a senior class trip to the Dutch Caribbean island, the police officer told The Associated Press.
The men ages 28 and 30 will appear before a judge Wednesday to determine whether their detention is legitimate, Attorney General Caren Janssen said. The hearing will be closed to the public, she said.
About 700 volunteers joined police, soldiers and FBI agents on Monday, combing scrubland and beaches on Aruba's southeastern tip in an unprecedented search for Holloway. Aruba's government had let 4,000 civil servants off work early.
Search parties found numerous items including T-shirts and sunglasses, but none had been tied to the missing teenager, authorities said.
The hotel at which the two suspects worked was just a couple of blocks away from the seaside Holiday Inn at which Holloway had been staying.
The suspects were arrested Sunday morning at their homes in the southeastern community of San Nicolas, but Aruba officials have declined to provide specific charges before their hearing.
Authorities searched the men's homes and impounded three vehicles, carrying away bags of items. Authorities said they had not found any of Holloway's belongings at the suspects' homes, but an eight-member team of FBI agents supporting the investigation was to help perform forensic testing.
The officer told AP Tuesday that the men were known to police for hanging around hotels on the resort island and sometimes approaching female guests, although no complaints had been filed against them
Monday, June 06, 2005
HANNAH WOLFSON
News staff writer
ORANJESTAD, Aruba - Aruban police arrested and interrogated two men Sunday whom they believe were spotted with a missing Mountain Brook teen shortly before she disappeared a week ago.
The two men, known drug dealers, may have connections with three others targeted earlier as "persons of interest," according to police.
Police identified the two suspects only as Aruban residents aged 28 and 30. They were security guards at the vacant Allegro hotel, which authorities picked through Saturday as part of the ongoing search for Natalee Holloway, 18
Wednesday, June 8, 2005
ORANJESTAD, Aruba (CNN)
The two men, who are hotel security guards, are to appear in court Wednesday, when prosecutors could lay out the case against them. They have not been formally charged.
Prosecutors on Tuesday ordered the two men to remain detained, saying there was "reasonable suspicion" the men were involved in "certain criminal acts."
Acting on a tip, police arrested the two hotel security guards Sunday morning in the oil-refining town of San Nicolas.
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13 agents by June 6th
June 6, 2005
http://www.legendgames.net/showstor...s/WN0000182.txt
"With the Natalee Holloway investigation focusing on three men, one the son of a judge and all said to be popular on the small island, authorities are speaking with an ominous tone of mystery regarding the Alabama senior and honor student's disappearance.
He declined to give details.
An additional ten FBI agents are on in Aruba, bringing the total to thirteen. The additional resources were apparently requested as a result of some unknown circumstances in the case.
U.S. Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Vestavia Hills, said Saturday there were circumstances surrounding Holloway's disappearance that warranted the FBI being heavily involved.
"The circumstances were disturbing," said Bachus, who formally requested the FBI's involvement. "I can't get into it, but it's something the family is aware of. There was an immediate recognition that this was not simply a teen who wandered off."
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EquuSearch founder Tim Miller met with Aruba's Prime Minister Nelson Oduber Tuesday. He said with the help of the Dutch Marines, the search-and-rescue group would be able to search the entire island.
"Right now, we have a lot of work ahead of us. I met with the police commissioner. We've got areas mapped. I think this is new energy," Miller said.
Oduber said he filed a formal request Tuesday with the Netherlands to send in a new contingent of Dutch Marines to help in the search for Natalee, based on EquuSearch's recommendation.
Spokesman Ad van der Linde of the Dutch Defense Ministry said around 70 Dutch Marines among several hundred based on the island had assisted in three search missions.
Countless searches by Dutch Marines, FBI agents and trained dogs, Aruban police and hundreds of resident and tourist volunteers have failed to turn up any sign of Holloway.
http://www.click2houston.com/news/4664959/detail.htmll
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uly 26, 2005
Aruba brings in experts; reward now $1 million
By Margaret Wever
Associated Press Writer
ORANJESTAD, Aruba — Aruban authorities have brought in experts from the Netherlands and send a prosecutor to consult with the FBI as they seek to solve the disappearance of missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, officials said Monday.
The reward in the case rose to $1 million.
The four experts from the Netherlands traveled to the Dutch Caribbean island to assist with interrogations while two members of the team investigating the Holloway case traveled to the FBI crime lab in Quantico, Va., the public prosecutor's office of Aruba said.
Aruba has agreed to show transcripts of interrogations to the FBI, which is acting in an advisory role in the high-profile case, in a sign of increased cooperation that drew praise from the family of the Mountain Brook teen who vanished on the last night of a high school graduation trip.
"I'm really so grateful to the Aruban officials who have made it possible to release this information," the teenager's mother, Beth Holloway Twitty, said after announcing that the reward for information leading to her safe return had been increased to $1 million.
The public prosecutor's office said in a statement that Amalin Flanegin, a senior member of the prosecution team, and a police investigator would be at the FBI crime lab for a week with materials gathered during the investigation to discuss the case. They did not specify the materials.
http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/050726/aruba.shtml
VAN SUSTEREN: Last month, Dave Holloway went to Aruba to organize another search for Natalee. While he was there, he met with a prosecutor who is no longer on the case. When chief prosecutor Karin Janssen found out about it, she was so mad, she complained to the attorney general. Why?
VAN SUSTEREN: Between the time you learned of her name two or three weeks into the case, until the time you actually met with her, did you ever sit down and talk to her?
HOLLOWAY: No, I've never had any contact with her. I've just heard her name and heard that she flew to Quantico to deliver or to provide the FBI with some information.
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FBI (search) agents and officers from the Miami-Dade police department brought two bloodhounds to help search an area of tropical vegetation next to the Marriott Hotel on Tuesday as firefighters pumped water from the site. At nightfall, more than two weeks after the Alabama teen disappeared, they gave up the search of that area.
"We didn't find anything," police spokesman Comemencia told The Associated Press. He declined to say where investigators might look next.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,159601,00.html
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Aired June 24, 2005 - 20:00:00 ET
PENHAUL: Well, of course, we do know those FBI divers were in here what seems like weeks ago now, Nancy. I guess it was probably two weeks ago now. But because the government never pinpointed a search area in the ocean for them, they never put a flipper in the water.
What we do know now, though, of course, is a Texas volunteer search team is on the ground, or should be on the ground completely in the next few moments. They`ve got all sorts of specialist equipment. They`ve got divers, they`ve got sniffing dogs, they`ve got sonar, and they should be getting their search underway in earnest as of tomorrow, Nancy.
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Posted: 5/31/2005
Posted: 5/31/2005
The Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A Mountain Brook High School graduate disappeared during a senior trip to Aruba, FBI officials said Tuesday.
Special Agent Jeff Fuqua said Birmingham FBI agents were coordinating with FBI officials in the Caribbean to search for Natalee Holloway, who took the trip after her May 24 graduation. She never showed up for the group's return flight Monday, The Birmingham News reported.
"We have been made aware of the missing girl, and we're looking into the matter," Fuqua said.
Police in Aruba also said they were searching for Holloway.
Students said about 125 graduating seniors and adults took the five-day trip, which is an annual tradition not sponsored by the school.
"We went to check in for our airplane, and she wasn't there, and she's been missing since then," said Jay Weinacker, a member of Holloway's graduating class.
Officials at Mountain Brook Community Church said more than 150 people participated Tuesday in a prayer service for Holloway.
"Word just kind of got out, and parents and students just really wanted to get together and have a little prayer service for the whole situation," said Troy Gambrell, an associate in the youth ministry.
Holloway's family members declined comment, The Birmingham News reported.
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