A U.S. judge on Tuesday agreed to delay Joran Van der Sloot’s extortion trial until the fall to give him more time to prepare a defense or decide if he wants to enter a guilty plea.
Joran van der Sloot, the chief suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway, has been arraigned in federal court in Birmingham on charges that he attempted to extort money from the missing teen’s mother.
Joran van der Sloot, the chief suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway, was brought from Peru to Birmingham Thursday afternoon to face charges.
The chief suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of Mountain Brook student Natalee Holloway is being transferred to a prison near Peru’s capital ahead of his pending extradition to the U.S. to face charges linked to her vanishing.
