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Joran van der Sloot -- a Dutch national and suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway and the murder last month of a young woman in Peru -- faces an arrest warrant on charges of extortion and wire fraud in Alabama, according to this article on CNN.com. U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance says van der Sloot allegedly tried to extort $250,000 from an individual in exchange for the location of the remains of Alabama teen…
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A UK Dad whose eight-month-old son was kidnapped has launched a desperate plea for help on Twitter after busy police ignored his plight, according to this article in the Daily Mail Online. Martin Perry, 32, made the anxious appeal via the micro-blogging site after Tristan was snatched from a nursery near Bangkok, Thailand, nearly two…
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BBC Caribbean calls last December’s hanging of convicted killer Charles Elroy Laplace as “one of the single most powerful acts against rising violent crime in the Caribbean,” according to this article. In a feature headlined “Declaring war on violent crime,” the BBC also noted that while there were just…
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Dutch national Joran van der Sloot, twice arrested in the mysterious disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway, has been named the prime suspect in the death of a young Peruvian woman found dead over the weekend in a Lima hotel, according to…
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Beth Holloway has created the Natalee Holloway Resource Center, named for her daughter who went missing during a high school graduation trip to Aruba, according to this Associated Press article. The center will be based at the National Museum of Crime & Punishment in downtown Washington. The nonprofit…
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Mexico does not object to U.S. plans to station troops along the border between the two nations, as long as the soldiers do not arrest Mexicans trying to get into the United States, President Felipe Calderon said on Thursday. U.S. President Barack Obama, reacting to drug violence in northern Mexico, said Tuesday he would send 1,200 more National Guard troops and ask for an additional $500 million to secure the almost 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border.…
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My heart leapt when I saw this article, sent to me by my brother, Ed Dunsavage. The subject field in Ed's e-mail said, "I wish we'd had this a year ago."
As wonderful an advance as this NASA system is, it would not have helped us find Joe because Joe did not have a personal locator beacon…
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The Caribbean's biggest cruise lines including Carnival and Royal Caribbean say they plan to go ahead with calls in Jamaica this week despite growing unrest in the country's…
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At least 27 people, almost all civilians, have died in gun battles in Jamaica, police have said, as the hunt continues for a suspected drug lord, the BBC reports. A state of emergency has been in place in parts of Kingston since Friday, when several police stations were attacked. The fighting has intermittently blocked the road to Kingston's airport and forced some flights to be cancelled. The U.S.…
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The New York Times reports that President Obama will send up to 1,200 National Guard troops to the Southwest border and increase spending on law enforcement, yielding to demands from both Republican and Democratic lawmakers there that border security be tightened. Calls to send troops to the border mounted after the shooting death of a rancher in southern Arizona on March 27; the police suspect the rancher was killed by…
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A blog post in ArizonaCentral.com: "Arpaio Says No to Mexico Travel. How About Honduras?"
While I know the suggestion is made with tongue firmly planted in cheek as a reference to a junket the sheriff's team apparently made to Roatan on the Arizona taxpayer's dime, Honduras IS being heavily promoted as a tourism destination and precious little media attention is being paid to the tourists and expats (as well as…
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Check the Friends of Ben Vaugh blog for updates and ways to help.
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I don't know anything more about this case, will look into it. A Facebook group has been created for anyone who wants to know more and help. If you know anything about this case, please post your information as a comment on this post. Thanks.
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I don't know how I managed not to stumble upon this page earlier. It's a page (actually, 11 pages) on the…
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