Alabama's filed arrest warrant for Joran van der Sloot on Extortion and Wire Fraud charges-claiming extort of $250,000 in exchange for location of phsyical remains of Natalee Holloway and circumstances surrounding her death.
The U.S. wants van der Sloot. The United States charges filed by U.S. Attorney Vance says are unrelated to van der Sloot's status as prime suspect in the killing of a Peruvian woman only days ago, his subsequent fleeing from Peru to Chili, and capture and detainment by Interpol police today.
The new extortion and wire fraud legal complaint, filed by the state of Alabama, alleges that van der Sloot tried to extort $250,000 from an individual in exchange for the location of remains of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway and the circumstances surrounding her death.
Van der Sloot was once the main suspect in Holloway's disappearance in Aruba, in the Caribbean, in 2005, arrested three separate times in relattion to Holloway's disappearance.
Announcement of the van der Sloot arrest warrant issued in the United States arrives on the same day the Dutchman has been apprehended in Chile, related to the murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores Ramirez in Peru, that occurred only days ago.
U.S. Attorney Vance calls the timing "strangely a coincidence."; The Alabama investigation had been going on for about six weeks, the U.S. Attorney says. "Coincidence" seems to be a popular term with attorneys in cases related to van der Sloot: only earlier today, his attorney called the murder of Flores Ramirez an "eerie coincidence" as related to her client van der Sloot.
The Alabama, United States, arrest warrant will go through the Interpol system in an effort to lead to van der Sloot's prosecution in the United States, Vance said.