Peru agrees to extradite van der Sloot to U.S.

Peru has agreed to extradite Joran van der Sloot, a suspect in the 2005 disappearance of American Natalee Holloway, to the United States when he finishes serving a 28-year murder sentence, the Peruvian news agency Andina reported.

U.S. authorities want to try van der Sloot on charges he extorted money from Holloway's mother by offering bogus information about her daughter's disappearance. A federal grand jury indicted him on charges of extortion and wire fraud.

Holloway, an 18-year-old from Alabama, was last seen in the early hours of May 30, 2005, leaving a nightclub on Aruba with van der Sloot and two other men.

She'd gone to the Caribbean island with 100 classmates to celebrate their graduation from Mountain Brook High School in suburban Birmingham, Alabama.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/10/world/americas/peru-van-der-sloot-extradition