TOKYO — A U.S. military civilian employee was sentenced to nine years in prison for two rapes on Okinawa, court officials and media reports said today.

Dag A. Thompson, 36, was sentenced for the rapes in 1998 and 2004, said Naha District Court official Tatsuhiko Toguchi. Court officials refused to give further details about Thompson, including his hometown.

Japan's Kyodo News said he was a civilian employee working on Kadena Air Base and was arrested in 2004. It said both victims were in their 20s.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Aruban police are reportedly looking into the possibility that the disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway could be linked to alcohol or drugs, according to a report Thursday by CBS.Witnesses have come forward who say the then 18-year-old Holloway had drugs in her possession and was drinking heavily on May 30, the day she disappeared, Gerald Dompig, deputy chief of police for Aruba, told CBS television's "48 Hours Mystery" program, which released a partial transcript of the interview on Thursday."We feel strongly that she probably went into shock or something happened to her system with all the alcohol — maybe on top of that, other drugs, which either she took or they gave her — and that she ... just collapsed," he said in the interview, scheduled for broadcast on Saturday.A cover-up may have ensued after the death, he said. Dompig specified that witnesses did not see Holloway taking drugs, only that she had them in her possession."After 10 months of investigation, including hearing many witnesses, we have strong indications that Natalee has died," Dompig said.