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The guards were known to police because they had a habit of going around to hotels trying to pick up women or bum cigarettes. There were reports at the time that part of the reason for their arrest was a possible involvement of theft from the Mt. Brook students.

Supposedly one of the suspects had had a brush with the law, however it was not of a sexual or a violent offense. Attorneys for the two adamantly denied that their clients had anything to do with the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.

| A weeping and upset Beth Holloway Twitty, mother of missing Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway, leaves a press conference, on Saturday, June 4, 2005, in Oranjestad, Aruba. |