Capt. Ade gets four months

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)