St. Maarten Private Eye

No, it isn't another way of obscuring information. This info has been released by a Dutch newspaper from The Netherlands. They are not obliged to give English translations. But to make life easier for you, I have "loosely" translated it here for our readers.

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Philipsburg - The Sint Maarten police have arrested two suspects in relation with the investigation of the homo-beatings. That was announced Saturday by trusted sources involved with the investigation.

The two suspects were French Side residents and they were arrested at the cafe Bamboo Bernies in Philipsburgh (Bamboo Bernies is in Beacon Hill). They were passing by while police was investigating the area.

The main suspect still hasn't been detained. Supposedly he's in hiding on the French Side of the island. " On St. Maarten the progress of investigations are hampered because the island is divided by two countries", prosecuter Taco Stein said. "That's why the investigation is being executed with extra precaution, thus taking in more time as usual". Unfortunately there is no extradition treaty between France and The Netherlands.

Behind the scenes there has been a whole team formed of authorities, ex-politicians and members of the judicial system to lead the investigation on the right tracks. The motive of this move is not only to solve this case, but to prevent that St. Maarten gets bad publicity, such as the case in Aruba after the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.

The American media has been exposing attention on the incident that occurred on St. Maarten. Jefferson himself works for CBS tv-station. Smith is still in the hospital in Miami and isn't yet able to talk. (ANP)

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