Legal Dialogs

 
We, Dennis Jacobs and Sharino Baldrik Kelly, respectively head officer and officer at the Corps Police Aruba, first mentioned at the Atraco Team, and the last mentioned at the Section Frequent Crimes district 2, declare the following:

Interrogators: On Tuesday, May 31 around 11:20 a.m., we interrogators, questioned as a witness the man named:
 
Joran Andreas Petrus Van der Sloot
 
Born in the Netherlands on August 6, 1987, student (International School Aruba) and living on the address Montanja Number 19 Aruba.
 
His statement, made in Papiamento, was by me, Kelly, translated into Dutch, and is as follows:

Interrogators: What happened on the night of May 29, 2005?

Joran: Last Sunday around 4 pm I went to the Excelsior Casino. My father had brought me there. I was at the casino to play "Texas Hold'em."
 
Between 8 pm and 10 pm I went to play Black Jack. A girl sat next to me. The girl started talking to me in English. The girl introduced herself but I do not recall her name. The girl told me that she had traveled to Aruba together with around 150 schoolmates. They had come to Aruba on a "Senior Trip." She told me that she had lost the amount of us $360 and that that money belonged to her father. She wanted to win back that money in the casino because her father would be mad at her. I helped her gamble and she won US $100. She asked me how old I was. I said that I was 19 years old. She told me that she was 18 years old.
 
Around 10:30 pm she told me to go to Carlos and Charlie's. I answered her that I could not go because I had school the next day. She kept on insisting that I go to Carlos and Charlie's. After that, I said that I would go to Carlos and Charlie's. I also told her that I would go together with a friend. I have to point out that the girl was drinking white wine while we were in the casino.
 
Around 11:00 pm, my father came to pick me up around McDonald's. When I walked in the direction of McDonald's I called a friend of mine, named Deepak Kalpoe, on his cellphone. I told Deepak that some American girls wanted to go out and asked if he wanted to go out together with me and them. Deepak told me he had just gotten off work, that he would take a bath, and after that would pick me up at home. I then drove home together with my father. Deepak has the number 5682726 I have a mobile phone that has the number 5635677.
 
On Monday, May 30 around 00:00 Deepak picked me up at home. Deepak had also brought his brother Satish in the car. Deepak came with his car, a grey 4 door Honda Civic. I had not told my father that I would go out. We immediately drove to Carlos and Charlie's.
 
Around 00:30 a.m. we had arrived at Carlos 'n Charlie's. When we got in I saw that a group of 30-50 people were inside. They all were drinking. The girl I mentioned previously immediately came to me, took me by my hand and pulled me to the bar. She laid down on the bar, placed a "Jello Shot" in her navel and told me to drink it, which I did. I had noticed that the girl was drunk. I had further together with my friends drunk a "Yard" whiskey coke. I also had, during the time in which we were in Carlos 'n Charlie's, drunk a shot of Bacardi 151 proof together with the girl. She also had taken some sips from my whiskey coke. We had kissed each other in the Carlos and Charlie's establishment.
 
Around 01:15, Carlos 'n Charlie's was closing. Together we walked outside. Outside, I asked the girl if I could go with her together to the Holiday Inn. She said that she wanted to see my house. I had told her that was ok. The girl told her friends that she would go together with me. I went with the girl to sit in the backseat of Deepak's car. Deepak was driving his car and his brother Satish was sitting next to him. In the car the girl told us to have the car drive past her friends, so that they could see the car. All the friends of the girl were standing on the corner of Royal Plaza at the South-East side when we drove by. In the car we started to kiss each other. My friend Deepak drove by "Choose a Name," Karma lounge and after that we drove over the Saskia road in the direction of the hotels. In the car I touched the breasts and vagina of the girl. We drove past all the hotels. In the car I told the girl that I could not go with her to my house. The girl then told me that she wanted to go to the North Coast to see sharks. I told her that there were no sharks to be seen at the North Coast. She answered that there were sharks there and that she had seen them already. We decided to drive into that direction then. We drove to the "Lighthouse." On the way there the girl asked us where we were taking her. She further told us to bring her to the Holiday Inn, because the next day she would have to travel back to the United States. We drove past the Lighthouse and after that to the Holiday Inn Hotel. In the car the girl said that her mother was the Hitler's sister and that they owned a plantation. She also said that Deepak and Satish were black and that black people worked as slaves on the plantations. The girl was very drunk.
 
Around 02:00 a.m. we had arrived at the hotel. At the entrance of the hotel the girl opened the backdoor of the car and fell on the ground. I then went out by the same door and helped her getting up. The girl had told me not to touch her and pushed my hands away. I saw that she then walked in the direction of the "lobby" of the Holiday Inn Hotel. I had not seen anyone in the "lobby." My friends Deepak and Satish told me that they had seen a dark skinned man in the lobby. They further told me that they thought that this man was a guard. After that we drove away. I had not seen if the girl entered the lobby. The only thing I had seen was that the girl was leaning on a cement pillar at the entrance.

Interrogators: What was the girl wearing? (with the word girl, the missing woman, Natalee Ann Holloway is referred to, remark by Jacobs.)

Joran: She was wearing a blue jeans skirt and in my opinion a blue tank-top.

Interrogators: What were you wearing?

Joran: I was wearing a blue jeans and blue and white shirt.

Interrogators: Did you use drugs with the girl?

Joran: No. I also did not see the girl using drugs. If you have more questions I am willing to answer them.

Signed: Joran van der Sloot

Interrogators: After witness Joran van der Sloot had read his statement, he declared that he persisted in it and signed it.
 
Of which we, verbalisanten, under oath made this police statement, closed and signed on Bubali, on Aruba on May 31 2005.