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    U.S. citizen on the run after busting out of Bali prison

    DENPASAR, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesian police are hunting for a U.S. citizen who escaped on Monday from an overcrowded prison on the holiday island of Bali by cutting through steel bars in a ceiling, the jail’s second breakout of foreign inmates this year.

    The Kerobokan prison, about 10 km (six miles) from the main tourist beaches in the Kuta area, often holds foreigners facing drug-related charges.
    Cristian Beasley, who was a suspect in crimes related to narcotics but had not been sentenced, escaped at 4.10 a.m. (2010 GMT Sunday), said Badung Police chief Yudith Satria Hananta.


    “It is thought that the prisoner escaped ... by cutting through the steel bars above the ceiling,” he said in a statement, without giving details of how Beasley escaped without being detected.
    Beasley, 32, from California, is believed to have then used a rope to climb down a wall before getting over a perimeter wall in an area being refurbished.


    Police had questioned witnesses and guards and were hunting for Beasley, Hananta said.
    Another American, Paul Anthony Hoffman, 57, was captured while also trying to escape, Hananta said.
    Representatives of Beasley and Hoffman could not immediately be reached for comment.

    In June, an Australian, a Bulgarian, an Indian and a Malaysian tunneled to freedom about 12 meters (13 yards) under the prison’s walls.


    The Indian and the Bulgarian were caught soon after in neighboring East Timor, but Australian Shaun Edward Davidson and Malaysian Tee Kok King remain at large.


    Davidson has taunted authorities by saying he was enjoying life in various parts of the world, in purported posts on Facebook.


    Kerobokan has housed a number of well-known foreign drug convicts, including Australian Schappelle Corby, whose 12-1/2-year sentence for marijuana smuggling got huge media attention.


    Indonesia has executed several foreign drug convicts in recent years.


    Indonesian prisons are often overcrowded, partly because a war on drugs led by the government of President Joko Widodo has led to a surge in the number of people locked up.

    As of June, Kerobokan housed 1,378 inmates, more than four times its planned capacity of 323, government data show.


    Prison escapes are fairly common in Indonesia, which launched an investigation this year after about 350 inmates broke out of a prison on the island of Sumatra.

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-i...edName=newsOne
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    Tho Corby pressed his trouser
    His rod couldna arouse her
    On the lam from Denpasar
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    Doesn't seem much, does it? What stretch would that have got him?


    Beasley was arrested in August at a post office in the Kuta tourist area of Bali with a package containing 5.7 grams of hashish.

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    Good luck to him. Hope he makes it home safely.

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    Run Forest run!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
    Run Forest run!!
    https://youtube.com/watch?v=-5BB3roaIm4
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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Doesn't seem much, does it? What stretch would that have got him?
    5.7 g is around a fifth of an ounce. At a guess that's a dealer amount, not a user amount (from legal perspective lol) If we're talking bud, that's quite a few joints, but it says hashish, which is class B in NZ (if that's any indication whereas bud is class C and heroin class A).
    I would say it's fairly serious.

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    you surely know your drugs

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    ^ Common knowledge.

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    I'd imagine the original offence will be compounded by breaking free.

    His only hope may be to have kwik bender reassignment pinch a tourist passport and re-appear chameleon like a butterfly as LairybutterKuta or Tearaway57

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    Quote Originally Posted by david44 View Post
    His only hope may be to have kwik bender reassignment pinch a tourist passport and re-appear chameleon like a butterfly as LairybutterKuta or Tearaway57
    Ozzie guy got away a while ago still on the run...

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    ^^

    Yep,

    I love to smoke some nice Mull for sure but i never do it outside Australia.

    Punters that get busted in Bali i have zero sympathy for, we all know the rules.

    Same as Thailand, just forget about it and have a few beers.

    All good.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kmart View Post
    Good luck to him. Hope he makes it home safely.
    He's gonner need a lot of luck. Australia is a long way off.


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    Thanks for the map. That really puts things into perspective.

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    or dead.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by david44 View Post
    I'd imagine the original offence will be compounded by breaking free.
    I read somewhere that there is no penalty in Indonesia fro breaking out. Might have been in articles about the other 4.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wilsonandson View Post
    Australia is a long way off.
    Not really, look at your map, south Indonesia to Darwin....some baksheesh to a fisherman with a decent boat and he could make it. Moot point anyway as the guy's from the US.

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    That's a shame.

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    American Who Escaped Crowded Bali Prison Is Recaptured

    By Jeffrey Hutton
    Dec. 18, 2017



    Chrishan Beasley on Monday at Kerobokan Prison after his recapture.
    Credit Badung Police, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images.

    JAKARTA, Indonesia — Nearly a week after escaping from a notoriously overcrowded prison in Bali, an American citizen arrested in August on drug charges is back in police custody.

    Chrishan Beasley, 32, was recaptured on the island of Lombok, Indonesia, about 100 miles east of where he had been awaiting trial, in Kerobokan Prison. The Indonesian police say they seized Mr. Beasley on Saturday in front of a budget hotel in the tourist town of Senggigi.

    “We got him around 9:30 p.m. local time in a street outside of a homestay,” said Yudith Satria Hanata, the police chief in the Badung region, where the prison is located.

    Overcrowded and underfunded, Indonesia’s prisons have seen hundreds of escape attempts of varying success this year. Most dramatic was a prison break in May when 440 inmates at a prison in Sumatra reportedly escaped when they were released from Friday Prayer.

    In June four prisoners escaped from Kerobokan Prison after they tunneled under its outer wall. While two of the escapees were caught in East Timor a week later, Shaun Edward Davidson of Australia and Tee Kok King of Malaysia remain at large.

    Kerobokan Prison, in Bali, Indonesia, was built to house little more than 320 inmates, but now has more than 1,400.

    Mr. Beasley, a native of California, is believed to have sawed through the bars of his prison cell at about 4 a.m. on Dec. 11. He then clambered over the prison wall and lowered himself to the ground using a rope, officials say.

    Mr. Beasley paid a local fisherman for the use of a boat to cross the channel separating the two islands, they said.

    A second American, Paul Anthony Hoffman, 57, was reportedly caught trying to escape on the same night.

    Located in the heart of Bali’s tourist area, Kerobokan Prison houses most of the island’s offenders. But the decrepit facility is badly overstretched. Built for little more than 320 inmates, it now houses more than 1,400.

    Tight budgets and low salaries exacerbate the prison’s already shaky security. Guards make the equivalent of a few hundred dollars a month. On the night of the break in June, only five guards were reportedly on duty.

    Indonesia’s continuing drug crackdown is adding to its prison population. About half of the estimated 228,000 inmates in Indonesia’s prisons are being held on drug charges, officials say. In 2009, the government introduced mandatory prison sentences for anyone convicted of using narcotics.

    Mr. Beasley was arrested in August on suspicion of possessing more than five grams of hashish.

    https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/1...n/4581837.html

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    Didn't look good before; looks a lot worse now.

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