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Ships Use Sonar in New Search Off Aruba
By JONATHAN M. KATZ
The Associated PressWednesday,
April 19, 2006; 4:33 PM
ORANJESTAD, Aruba --
The Aruban coast guard searched offshore Wednesday
for missing teenager Natalee Holloway, authorities said.
Officials again refused to give any details about a
19-year-old man arrested over the weekend in connection
with the year-old case.
The public prosecutor's office said the coast guard was
using sonar and other equipment to check an unspecified
area off the Caribbean island.
The search, the latest of many for the missing Alabama
teen, was in its fourth day but had not previously been
disclosed.
Officials on the Dutch island said they were interviewing
witnesses and were in contact with authorities in the
Netherlands about tips received after the airing of a
television program devoted to unsolved crimes.
Authorities declined to provide details about the
developments or to answer questions about the
19-year-old being held on suspicion of involvement
in Holloway's disappearance 11 months ago.
A judge on Thursday approved a prosecution request
to hold the man pending further investigation.
He was also detained on suspicion of drug offenses.
Under the law, another hearing for the man _ identified
only by his initials, G.V.C. _ must be held by at
least April 25 if the prosecution wants to continue
holding him, said Mariaine Croes, a spokeswoman for
the prosecutor's office.
The 19-year-old's defense attorney, Eline Lotter Homan,
declined to comment.
Holloway, who was 18 when she disappeared, was last
seen leaving a bar with a Dutch teen, Joran van der Sloot,
and two Surinamese brothers May 30.
Van der Sloot and the brothers, Deepak and Satish Kalpoe,
were jailed and later released after a judge ruled there
was not enough evidence to hold them.
Searches involving Dutch marines, the FBI and hundreds
of volunteers have been conducted throughout the island
and off the coast.
More recent searches have focused on dunes along the
island's north shore.
Associated Press writer Margaret Wever
contributed to this report.