The police in the Bahamas have detained an ambulance driver and a female senator for questioning, for plotting to extort money from actor John Travolta, following the death of his son, Jett Travolta, 16, who died after suffering a seizure attack shortly after New Year, while holidaying at the family's vacation home on Grand Bahama Island .

No charges have been laid, so far, and authorities have not revealed extortion details. However, certain sources in the media suggest, the two detainees asked Travolta to pay up to $20-million (£15-million), failing which they threatened to sell photographs of Jett's body.

Tarino Lightbourne, the ambulance drive who rushed Travolta's son to hospital, after trying to revive him, has been detained since Thursday, along with Senator Pleasant Bridgewater, an attorney from Grand Bahama and former member of the Bahamian parliament, who after being defeated in the 2007 general elections, was later appointed to the Senate. According to Asstt. Supdt. of Police Loretta Mackey, Sen. Pleasant Bridgewater, after being charged with abetment to extort and conspiracy to extort, has been released on a $40,000 bail. Lightbourne remains in police custody and is assisting them in the on-going investigation.

The Travoltas' cremated the body of their son on the Island, and flying back home with an urn of their son's ashes, they later held a memorial service in Florida . The family's lawyers strongly condemned the false claims for money, at time when the family is grieving the loss of a beloved son.

Wilchcombe, another member of the Bahamas parliament and ex-tourism minister, who described himself as a friend of the Travoltas, was also arrested, questioned and Friday 'pending further investigations'.