Handcuffed man escapes 3 guards

Handcuffed man escapes 3 guards

Bogor (JP): Ari, a man well known to police for involvement in
local auto theft syndicates, left Citeureup Police stunned on
Wednesday evening when he escaped from detectives' custody.

As of Friday, the whereabouts of the 20-year-old man, a repeat
offender who had just spent two days locked up in the Citeureup
Police station, remained unknown.

Local police sources said that Ari, who was handcuffed and
guarded by three detectives, was being taken to the nearby Parung
area to locate his suspected accomplices.

"Ari, who so far had committed 18 similar crimes, was left
alone in a blue Isuzu Panther minivan belonging to one of the
detectives," a source said.

"The detectives only knew the of escape after they got back to
the vehicle," he said, adding that Ari fled from the car still
handcuffed.

But it remained unclear why the detectives decided to leave
such an apparently notorious criminal alone with only his hands
locked together.

Chief of Bogor Police precinct Lt. Col. Ade Husen could not be
reached for comment. (21/ind)