A plane carrying Joran van der Sloot and agents from the FBI landed in Birmingham, Alabama, on Thursday afternoon.
Van der Sloot is the prime suspect in the May 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba during a Mountain Brook High School, Alabama, senior trip.
The plane landed at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport.
After landing, officials from the FBI took van der Sloot to the Hoover City Jail, located about 30 minutes south of the airport.
The plane carrying van der Sloot took off shortly before 8:00 a.m. from Jorge Chavez International Airport, according to van der Sloot’s lawyer.
Van der Sloot will now face charges of extortion and wire fraud in the U.S. after allegedly attempting to sell Beth Holloway, Natalee’s mother, information regarding the location of her daughter’s body.
JORAN VAN DER SLOOT CASE: FBI PLANE LANDS IN PERU FOR TRANSFER OF PRIME NATALEE HOLLOWAY SUSPECT
Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot, back left, is driven in a police vehicle from the Ancon I maximum-security prison on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, on Thursday. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
In the coming days, van der Sloot will be arraigned in federal court.
In an earlier statement provided to Fox News Digital when the Peruvian court announced the transfer of van der Sloot, Beth Holloway said this gives a chance for justice to finally be served.
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