Prison escapee recaptured

Prison escapee recaptured

JAKARTA: Two days after fleeing Cipinang Prison in East
Jakarta, defendant Farhat Ferdian Baihaki, 26, was arrested by
the Jakarta Police on Thursday night, police said on Friday.

"The police found him hiding in a house belonging to his
girlfriend's parents in Tambun, Bekasi," Jakarta Police spokesman
Sr. Comr. Tjiptono said on Friday.

Meanwhile, he said, Chief Brig. Piping Firdaus, 25, from the
Jakarta Police department, who helped Farhat escape on Wednesday
was being questioned by internal affairs officers.

Piping, who became acquainted with Farhat when the latter was
at the Jakarta Police detention center as a suspect, visited
Farhat on Wednesday at Cipinang.

The defendant took Piping's visiting card and escaped from the
prison after he showed the card to the guards.

The prison guards later realized that one of the prisoners was
gone and Piping must have helped him.

The guards contacted the police who later arrested Piping.--JP