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Van Cromvoirt, whose father handles video surveillance for the Holiday Inn where Holloway was staying, worked with a beach patrol unit on the island. He has been identified by Aruban authorities only by his initials, G.v.C.
"Today, the suspect G.v.C. has been released from police custody," prosecutors said in a statement Monday. "He has been released because the grounds for his detention are no longer there. He remains a suspect."
Prosecutors also revealed that another man had been arrested. "On Saturday, April the 22nd, a 20-year-old man with the initials E.B. was arrested in the Holloway case," they said in the statement. "He was released after the interrogation period of six hours."
In a further development, Aruban Police Commissioner Gerold Dompig, the former lead investigator in the case, has said that his son Michael, a friend of van Cromvoirt, was twice questioned as a witness, once following van Cromvoirt's arrest, the Associated Press reports.
"Michael was merely one of the many people who were questioned as witnesses in this investigation and was never considered a suspect," Dompig told the AP.
Dompig told ABC News that his son, who he said worked for a beachside water sports company, had overheard a group of people talking about someone using a boat to dispose of Holloway's body.
And in another revelation about the case, ABC News reports that van Cromvoirt's arrest came after police were tipped off by a cabdriver, who said that while driving Holloway and her friends one night she heard Holloway talking about being in love with a "Dutch boy."
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Van Cromvoirt allegedly matches the description, but did not answer questions during the week of interrogation following his arrest, ABC News reports.
Holloway, then 18, was celebrating her high school graduation with classmates and parent chaperones in Aruba, a self-governing Dutch protectorate, when she disappeared nearly a year ago.
She was last seen leaving a nightclub on May 30, 2005, with three male companions. The men – Dutch national Joran van der Sloot, 18, the son of an Aruban judge, and Surinamese brothers Deepak, 21, and Satish Kalpoe, 18 – were arrested the following month, but released after a judge ruled there was insufficient evidence to hold them.
All three have maintained their innocence.
