Oranjestad, Aruba ? Police investigating the disappearance of an Alabama teenager in Aruba said late Friday that one of three young men in custody has admitted “something bad happened” to her during her island visit.

Deputy Police Commissioner Gerold Dompig said the man was leading police late Friday to the scene. He refused to identify which young man had made the statement.

Natalee Holloway, 18, disappeared May 30 while on a five-day trip to the Caribbean island with 124 classmates and seven chaperones celebrating their graduation from Mountain Brook High School, near Birmingham. Police found her U.S. passport and packed bags in her hotel room.

Three men – two brothers from Suriname and a 17-year-old Dutch student – were arrested Thursday. Two former hotel security guards also were being held in the case. None of the five has been charged.

A lawyer for the two Suriname suspects – Satish Kalpoe, 18, and his brother Deepak, 21 – said they told police they took Holloway to Arashi Beach, on the northern tip of the island, in the early hours of May 30.

According to their police statement, they didn’t get out of the car, defense lawyer David Kock said. Instead, Holloway and the Dutch teen, an honors student at Aruba International School, “were in the back seat kissing.”

They further told police that they dropped Holloway at her Holiday Inn Hotel around 2 a.m., and last saw her being approached by a man in a black security guard uniform before they drove off, Kock said.

The brothers told police the young woman was drunk and refused to get out of the car when asked to, said Noraina Pietersz, who is representing 30-year-old Nick John, one of the two former security guards.

The three young men said Holloway stumbled in the parking lot of the hotel but refused help from her Dutch escort, Kock said. The brothers told police they last saw Holloway being approached by a man in a security guard uniform before they drove off, Kock said.

Holiday Inn employees say security cameras did not record Holloway’s return. In addition, a Holiday Inn guard who worked the overnight shift the day the young woman disappeared said he did not see her, Pietersz said.