Kurt Van DykeCredit: Kurt Van Dyke/Facebook
Kurt Van Dyke
Credit: Kurt Van Dyke/Facebook

NEED TO KNOW

  • Costa Rican authorities arrested the 31-year-old girlfriend of Kurt Van Dyke and a 34-year-old man, local media said on Nov. 12

  • Investigators said aspects of the February attack at a Hone Creek residence appeared to have been staged

  • Van Dyke owned Hotel Puerto Viejo and was known as the "King" of Salsa Brava surfing

The girlfriend of a California surfing legend who was brutally killed in Costa Rica has been arrested nine months after she told police they were both victims of a violent home invasion.