Joran van
der Sloot is being investigated in connection with a woman's death in
Peru.
Van der Sloot, 23, was traveling alone in a taxi near the Chilean
central coastal city of Vina del Mar when he was detained, said Douglas
Rodriguez, spokesman for the Chilean Investigative Police.
Van der
Sloot was transported Thursday afternoon to police headquarters in
Santiago, Chile.
TV images showed him emerging from a black police
SUV at the police station. His hair, which had been black in previous
images, was red and worn in a close-cropped crew cut.
A wake was
held Thursday in Lima, Peru, for Flores, who was scheduled to be buried
later in the day.
There is "incriminating evidence" linking van
der Sloot to Flores' killing, said Peruvian criminal investigator Cesar
Guardia Vasquez.
Flores' bludgeoned body was found in Room 309 of
the Hotel Tac in the Miraflores section of Lima, police said. She
suffered blunt trauma to the head, breaking her neck, and to her torso
and back, Peruvian police said Thursday.
03 June 2010
[Updated at 1:13 p.m.] Joran van der Sloot has been
arrested and is in police custody in Santiago, Chile, an Interpol
spokesperson in Santiago told CNN.
Joran van der Sloot is a suspect in a young woman's slaying this week
in Peru and was previously considered a suspect in the 2005
disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway in Aruba.
[Updated at 12:33 p.m.] Chilean investigators have
told CNN Chile that Joran van der Sloot was spotted in Arica, Chile,
near the Peruvian border and they believe he may still be there.
[Posted at 11:59 a.m.] Peruvian authorities
investigating a young woman's slaying this week are working with
officials from Interpol, Chile, Argentina and Colombia in the search for
Joran van der Sloot, a Dutch man previously considered a suspect in the
2005 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway, the Peruvian
justice minister said Thursday.
There is "incriminating evidence"
linking van der Sloot to the killing of 21-year-old Stephany Flores
Ramirez, who was found with multiple stab wounds in a Lima hotel room
Wednesday, Cesar Guardia Vasquez, of Chile Interpol's criminal
investigations unit, said at a news conference.
The hotel room where Flores was found was registered in van der
Sloot's name, he said.
A hotel guest and an employee witnessed the pair entering the hotel
room together at 5 a.m. on Sunday, Guardia said.
Police have video of the previous night, May 29, of van der Sloot and
Flores together at the Atlantic City Casino in Lima, he said.
According to immigration officials, van der Sloot fled to Chile over
land on Monday, Guardia said.
"We have all the evidence to show that the killer is this man," the
victim's father, businessman and race-car driver Ricardo Flores told CNN
en Español.
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