June 23, 2007: Marcel Loor, the Police Commissioner of St. Maarten has been arrested and charged with forgery and accepting bribes.  He was arrested at 7:00am on Tuesday, June 19, at his home by a high powered nine member team consisting of two Kingdom (Kingdom of the Netherlands) Detective Cooperation RST detectives, two local police detectives, a Public Prosecutor from Curaçao, two Federal detectives, the local Judge of Instruction and a court recorder.

Loor is currently serving an eight-day pre-trial detention, an extension beyond his initial two days of detention as granted by a Judge on Thursday. The accused commissioner appeared in court on Thursday as a part of  a routine review by the presiding Judge of all details of the arrest to ensure that the correct procedures had been followed. According to published reports the  Prosecutor in St. Maarten is seeking to have Loor transferred to a special holding cell in Curacao for his own safety. It is expected that the commissioner will fight the move.