Bali prison escapee nabbed

Bali prison escapee nabbed

DENPASAR, Bali: After more than two years at large, I Ketut
Artana, who escaped from the Kerobokan Penitentiary in the city
in 1999, was nabbed in Donggala regency, Central Sulawesi,
recently.

Bali Provincial Police spokesman Adj. Sr. Comr. Yatim Suyatmo
said here on Monday that the prisoner had been netted in an
operation by the Central Sulawesi Police in Donggala on Sunday.

"He was arrested after the police in the two provinces
cooperated to search for him soon after he escaped," he said,
citing the police concentrated their search in Donggala as they
knew that many his relatives were residing in the regency.

Artana escaped from the prison on Dec. 5, 1999 when he, with
fellows inmates, torched the prison. He was serving a three-year
sentence for assault.

A total of 289 inmates escaped the prison but, later, more
than 130 were recaptured, while the rest are still at large. --JP