EXCLUSIVE: A plane with agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation has landed in Lima, Peru to pick up Joran van der Sloot, the prime suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, according to Peru’s Interpol chief. Van der Sloot is the prime suspect in the May 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba during […]
Joran van der Sloot case: FBI plane heading to Peru for transfer of prime Natalee Holloway suspect
Natalee Holloway suspect Joran van der Slootâs Peru prison on lockdown, complicating extradition, lawyer says
MOUNTAIN BROOK, Ala. â EXCLUSIVE: A prison “incident” at a mountaintop penitentiary in Peru has prevented Joran van der Slootâs lawyer from speaking with him for nearly a week after news broke he would be extradited to the U.S. to face federal charges. Lawyer Maximo Altez told Fox News Digital that a lockdown there has […]
50 bricks of cocaine bearing Nazi symbols seized in Peru
Fifty bricks of South American cocaine wrapped in Nazi symbols destined for Belgium were intercepted by law enforcement in Peru, authorities said. Anti-narcotics officers discovered 58 kilograms of the packaged drugs with the Nazi swastika affixed to them, authorities said, according to AFT. Some of the packages had the word Hitler inscribed on the packed-in […]
Peru Sentences Ex-President Pedro Castillo to 1.5 Years Preventive Prison for Failed âSelf-Coupâ
Peruvian high court investigative judge Juan Carlos Checkley Soria sentenced the nationâs former president, Pedro Castillo, on Thursday to serve 18 months in preventive prison on charges of ârebellionâ and conspiracy to abuse authority. Castillo was impeached and arrested on December 7 after attempting to dissolve the nationâs congress to stay in executive power as