Police in front of the House of Madeleine powder on 4 August. An Australian businessman was arrested in connection with the hoax collar bomb threat to the teenager. Photo: Rick Rycroft/APAn Australian businessman was arrested in the United States in terms of an attack on a Sydney teenager, chained to the neck had a fake bomb.
The 50-year old was on Monday in the with the help of Australian police and the FBI in Louisville, Kentucky, arrested. Police ask to Australia deliver him a US Court, and want to charge him with aggravated breaking and entering and kidnapping. Officials have not released his name.
The arrest comes powder almost two weeks after 18-year-old Madeleine in her home in the affluent suburb of Mosman Sydney attacked, as part of an alleged extortion attempt, which said Australia's Prime Minister was "a Hollywood script."
Powder was home alone when a masked man broke a device that looked like a bomb on her neck and left chained in the House in the middle of the day, says the police a note with demands before flight.
Bomb technicians, negotiators and detectives rushed to the scene. Nearby houses were evacuated, roads were closed and medical and fire crews waited nearby. Powder are chained spent 10 hours to the device before the bomb squad could free her. She was not hurt, and it was later determined that contained no explosives.
Police say, had attached a note on the device, but was still not released information about what she has said. The attacker no additional demands after escape, new South Wales Police Assistant Commissioner Dave Hudson said.
Police have said they are to handle the case as an attempt blackmail.
"There are some links between the suspect and the family, but not direct links" reporters Hudson.
The man has family in both the US and Australia, and does business in both countries, Hudson said. He refused to say whether the suspect had direct business relationships with William powder, Madeleine's father.
Hudson said that the police identify not the man as a suspect until he had fled a few days after the attack Australia for Kentucky. Officials are still working to determine a motive, he said.
"It's a pretty detailed chain of circumstantial evidence, which has led us... We believe the arrest, it is pretty convincing," said Hudson.
Search police not for any other offenders in connection with the attack, said Hudson.
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