Capt. Ade gets four months

JAKARTA (JP): A military tribunal sentenced yesterday a police captain to four months and twenty days jail for violating police rules when escorting Zarina, an alleged Ecstasy pill trafficker, last year. He was not sacked.

Capt. Ade Sutiana former head of the detectives unit at the Tangerang police precinct was found guilty of violating the police oath when he allowed Zarina, accused of possessing and selling more than 29,000 Ecstasy pills, to escape his escort from the Tangerang police precinct to City Police headquarters on Aug. 8, 1996.

Earlier, prosecutor Col. JHK. Pangruruk demanded the tribunal sentence Ade to five months and twenty days imprisonment. The trial lasted four hours.

A police source said Ade had been moved to City Police headquarters.

Zarina, a would-be TV star, escaped from Ade by asking to stop at her mother's home in West Jakarta.

The 32-year-old woman said she wanted to go to the bathroom, but she jumped a wall and escaped.

Ade was relived of his post soon after the escape.

Zarina was re-arrested in Houston, U.S. and is now being tried at the West Jakarta District Court for illegally possessing, distributing and selling the psychotropic drug.

Ade will not take the witness stand in Zarina's trial. (12)