Poentje Castro, in jail along with others for 'fencing' after Claudius Phillips place of residence was missing large screen TV and some laptops, etc.
Poentje??!!! Fencing nets good money doesn't it.
All this brings me back to why Patrick may have "threatened Poentje in the first place after an interview to "catch" Patrick. Does Poentje do extortion also? Sure brings him down alot closer to Patricks stylem imo.
On another note, all those jailed were one on one with police captors. Sounds serious.
DottyTuesday, November 3, 2009 07:46 AM
It doesn't really sound like "fencing", rather blackkmail. Poentje didn't seem to be "selling" anything.
PappyTuesday, November 3, 2009 11:00 AM
Well I admit at the moment things do not look good for Poentje but still it might be good to wait until all the facts surface. There might be a simple innocent explanation for his actions. Ok, yes once again, innocent until proven guilty!
DottyWednesday, November 4, 2009 10:24 AM
Well seems to be according to Poentje's lawyer anyway...that is, a reasonable explanation. It's a dang head banger how the Aruban press got things so confused.
The lawyer in a latest article says that Pontje was helping Clausius get back his laptops. Now why didn't Claudius speak up sooner while the news was being made?
The police called it fencing and after his first hearing with the Judge, he was held over. Poentje had the laptops for 2 weeks apparently. There was mention of blackmail also. There's got to be more to it that Claudius spoke up so late and it's probably something to do with whatever Poentje was looking for and what he has found.
It's ok, I'm not worrying about that as this last charade has really fed me up. IUPG can be stuffed!!!
Is it carnival cops or beach cops again, which is about equal to keystone cops? Don't they communicate? What about the press there? I've never heard anything so screwed up in my life.
Now I do understand better the confusion Natalee's family was hit with.
PappyWednesday, November 4, 2009 02:01 PM
Well gee I don't know, maybe if anyone looks at the cases or the reporting of other cases anywhere in the world it could be exactly the same. There just is no fact checking anymore. It used to be one needed multiple verification of a story before it went into print in any credible newspaper but that is no longer the case. Then again maybe there is more to this story than meets our eyes, or maybe it is all just a bunch of nothing. I do not think it in anyway says anything about the Holloway case or what happened there with the press or the police. To me that is a big leap. Of course if a person wants to look upon Aruba negatively all the time then it is an expected leap.
Pappy
DottyWednesday, November 4, 2009 05:56 PM
I was NOT "all the time" looking at Aruba negatively. My views have been happening over a period of time.More like the last year. Stories are horrendous out of there.
PappyWednesday, November 4, 2009 06:46 PM
Well that is good to hear.
Actually if one wanted to look at crime and were from Alabama perhaps one could start reading the stories from Birmingham. Seems like they have quite a little nasty armpit of the nation going on there:
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Oh but I don't suppose a tally has been done in the last 4 1/2 years as to which has been more corrupt or had more incidents of crime.
DottyWednesday, November 4, 2009 10:58 PM
No, I haven't made a tally mainly b/c B'ham to my knowledge hasn't been advertising vacations with fancy slogans of safety. That was an interesting little story there. Research was done, cops got the crook and he is being punished...end of story. Very clear cut. You don't get that from the Caribbean nations. What you get is bizarre stories from the keystone cops to press that used to have a good rep. There's no comparison between the two places and it's not a matter of crime...it's a matter of what is reported a first, second, third, etc time. Stories change drastically and nothing quite so bizarre as the Poentje/Claudius story.
Poentje committing suicide after being caught. That changed. He was a Fence...that changed to blackmail. He had the laptops 2 weeks and had plenty of time to rectify the situation but he didn't. Claudius is a friend who let him sit in jail for a few days before agreeing that Poentje was helping him get back his laptops...but it took him two weeks to do so. Aruba isn't that big.
I really have not heard anything so bizarre from America yet.
Yes, IUPG for Poentje, Claudius, Joran, K2, Peter deVries, Patrick van der Eem, etc. All are innocent until proven guilty by a court of law, in a court of law.
JanThursday, November 5, 2009 07:47 PM
Well I personally do not think that these stories about Poentje rise to the level of concern that some do. It once again appears more the again difference in the way Aruba handles those suspected than the United States or perhaps other countries. They haul people into prison as a suspect and then sort out whether they in fact should be a suspect. it is all bassackwards to me but that is how they do it. Maybe that makes it more confusing for their press too. The Amigoe had this in today, and maybe it will be in their English version tomorrow.
ORANJESTAD — Johnny ‘Poentje’ Castro, presentator van het tv-programma Un Dia den Bida, is gisteren vrijgelaten. Het Openbaar Ministerie (OM) ging akkoord met het verzoek hem op vrije voeten te stellen.
De mediapersoonlijkheid zou eigenlijk tot maandag 9 november in de cel moeten verblijven op verdenking van heling. Hij werd vrijdag 30 oktober aangehouden met een gestolen laptop. Deze computer was enkele weken eerder ontvreemd van zanger Claudius Phillips. Op verzoek van Rossi Marchena, advocaat van de verdachte, besloot de officier van justitie echter om Castro niet langer vast te houden. Castro zegt niet betrokken te zijn bij criminele activiteiten en beweert dat Phillips vanaf het begin op de hoogte was dat hij de laptop in zijn bezit had. De presentator laat aan nieuwswebsite 24ora.com weten dat hij het jammer vindt dat wanneer hij probeert te helpen, zelf vervolgd wordt. Marchena ontkent dat Castro de laptop gekocht zou hebben. Bovendien, zo beweert de advocaat, zou Claudius Phillips zelf aan de politie verklaard hebben dat Poentje Castro hem probeerde te helpen zijn laptops terug te krijgen. Bij de inbraak in het huis van de zanger waren namelijk twee laptops gestolen.
Supposedly Poentje's problems are behind him.
I personally find Aruba as safe and wonderful as any place can be that advertises as a tourist destination. Miami, Atlantic City, Las Vegas, Hollywood, any of those cities want tourists and they all have problems. If people don't feel safe they will go elsewhere. But so far Aruba is more than likely safer than other destinations in the Caribbean.
DottyMonday, November 9, 2009 10:45 AM
That's quite the friendship Claudius and Poentje have. Claudius lets his friend sit in jail for several days and doesn't say a thing until the lawyer announces that Poentje was actuallly helping Claudius, and like any good friend would do, Poentje hung onto the laptop for 2 weeks to make sure it stayed safe. One never knows when the theives might strike again. Makes perfect sense.
JanTuesday, November 10, 2009 01:37 PM
Today in the Amigoe, translation from Windows 7, except for the word Orange City, not too bad.
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