Natalee Holloway suspect Joran van der Sloot arrives in US from Peru to face charges

Joran van der Sloot, the chief suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway, arrived in the United States from Peru on Thursday to face charges that he attempted to extort money from the missing teen’s mother.

An FBI-operated plane carrying van der Sloot landed at Birmingham’s Shuttlesworth Airport about 2:30 p.m. — just hours after Peruvian authorities handed him over temporarily to US custody — and the suspect was escorted down the steps into a black SUV, which brought him to a local jail.

Van der Sloot is scheduled to be arraigned in federal court in Birmingham at 11 a.m. Friday, according to court records.

Kevin Butler, an attorney listed as van der Sloot’s public defender, did not return an email seeking comment on the case.

The suspect has been serving a 28-year sentence in Peru after confessing to killing a Peruvian woman.

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