WOERDEN, The Netherlands—Chilean police arrested Dutch national Joran van der Sloot while on his way to the coastal city of Viña del Mar in a large-scale manhunt on Thursday. Van der Sloot is suspected of murdering 21 year old Stephany Ramirez Flores who was found dead in a hotel room in Lima, Peru, on Wednesday.
Chilean authorities launched an intensive search for van der Sloot after news got out that he had fled to Chile.
Peruvian media report that van der Sloot paid two Peruvian brothers over 200 Euro (USD 243) to take him across the border to Chile in a shuttle bus.
In the city of Arnica in Chile, 11 miles South of the border, where van der Sloot entered the country, police searched hotels and hostels and set up roadblocks around the city.
Van der Sloot was arrested in a taxi on his way to the coastal city of Viña del Mar. He reportedly did not resist and was taken to Chile’s capital Santiago.
Enacting van der Sloot’s international arrest warrant could take up to five days, so the Chilean Investigation Police are holding holding him its Foreigners’ Department. They are taking his statement, and have confiscated his identity papers.
Peru issued an arrest warrant for van der Sloot after Stephany Tatiana Ramirez Flores, 21, daughter of businessman and Peruvian racer Ricardo Flores, was found dead in a hotel room that had been rented out in van der Sloot’s name. Flores was killed on May 30 in Lima, Peru.
Surveillance video in a casino and hotel show van der Sloot together with Flores. A hotel employee saw the two entering the hotel room on May 30 around 5am, Cesar Guardia Vasquez, Head of Peru’s National Bureau of Criminal Investigation (DIRINCRI), told the local Lima newspaper, La Republica.
Van der Sloot was also a suspect in another criminal investigation, in the disappearance of American Natalee Holloway in Aruba in May of 2005.
Chilean authorities launched an intensive search for van der Sloot after news got out that he had fled to Chile.
Peruvian media report that van der Sloot paid two Peruvian brothers over 200 Euro (USD 243) to take him across the border to Chile in a shuttle bus.
In the city of Arnica in Chile, 11 miles South of the border, where van der Sloot entered the country, police searched hotels and hostels and set up roadblocks around the city.
Van der Sloot was arrested in a taxi on his way to the coastal city of Viña del Mar. He reportedly did not resist and was taken to Chile’s capital Santiago.
Enacting van der Sloot’s international arrest warrant could take up to five days, so the Chilean Investigation Police are holding holding him its Foreigners’ Department. They are taking his statement, and have confiscated his identity papers.
Peru issued an arrest warrant for van der Sloot after Stephany Tatiana Ramirez Flores, 21, daughter of businessman and Peruvian racer Ricardo Flores, was found dead in a hotel room that had been rented out in van der Sloot’s name. Flores was killed on May 30 in Lima, Peru.
Surveillance video in a casino and hotel show van der Sloot together with Flores. A hotel employee saw the two entering the hotel room on May 30 around 5am, Cesar Guardia Vasquez, Head of Peru’s National Bureau of Criminal Investigation (DIRINCRI), told the local Lima newspaper, La Republica.
Van der Sloot was also a suspect in another criminal investigation, in the disappearance of American Natalee Holloway in Aruba in May of 2005.
