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Lawyers: Teen, 3 men went to Aruban beach
ORANJESTAD, Aruba - A missing Alabama honors student went to an Aruban beach with a Dutch teen the night she disappeared and engaged in passionate kissing with him in the car, a defense lawyer representing one of five men arrested in the case said Friday.
Associated Press
Published June 11, 2005
Natalee Holloway, 18, drove with the Dutch teen and two Surinamese brothers to Arashi beach, on the northern part of the island, said Noraina Pietersz, a court-appointed lawyer representing one of two former security guards arrested in the case. Pietersz read from testimony given to police by the two brothers last week.
Five people - the Dutch student, the Surinamese brothers and the former security guards - have been arrested in the disappearance of Holloway, who was last seen May 30.
Authorities have not said Holloway was a victim of foul play and have not ruled out any possibilities, including that she may have drowned.
Holloway's stepmother, Robin Holloway, said authorities told the family they are also searching nearby islands.
After Holloway and the three men went to the beach, they drove her to her hotel, where she stumbled and was approached by a man wearing a security guard uniform, said another defense attorney, David Kock.
Holloway's stepfather, George Twitty, said she met the Dutch student in the casino of her hotel and flirted with him two days before she disappeared.
Twitty said he met with the Dutch teen and Surinamese brothers Tuesday, and they told him they were with his stepdaughter at a nightclub restaurant Sunday night, shortly before she disappeared.
The men said Holloway danced and flirted with the Dutch teen before they dropped her at the hotel, Twitty said.
She was drunk and stumbled when she tried to get out of the car, the boys told him. When the Dutch teen tried to help her she said, "I can stand on my own," the men told Twitty.
Kock said his client, Satish Kalpoe, 18, and his brother, Deepak, 21, told police they saw a security guard approach Holloway in the parking lot in front of the hotel lobby before they drove off.
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