In 2005, Joran van der Sloot is believed to have killed 18-year-old Natalee Holloway in Aruba. In 2010, a federal grand jury in Alabama indicted him on charges of extortion and wire fraud. Van der Sloot attempted to extort $250,000 from Holloway’s mother for information on her whereabouts. She paid him $25,000, but the information he gave her turned out to be bogus.
Van der Sloot is currently serving a 28-year sentence in a Peruvian prison for the murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores.
The Justice Department has made a formal extradition request to the Peruvian authorities and a judge in Peru has taken the request under advisement. He is expected to make a ruling shortly.
Have those people at the Justice Department taken leave of their senses? Van der Sloot is doing time under very harsh conditions in a Peruvian prison. The feds want to whisk him out of that prison to stand trial in the U.S. so that, if convicted, he will face five to 10 years in a federal prison where his living conditions, food and treatment by guards will be much, much better.
Van der Sloot will probably be released from his Peruvian hellhole well short of 28 years. It would make much more sense if the morons over at Justice would keep constant track of any developments in his Peruvian confinement and request extradition only shortly before he is about to be released.
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