American Who Escaped Crowded Bali Prison Is Recaptured
18, 2017
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Nearly a week after escaping from a notoriously overcrowded prison in
Bali, an American citizen arrested in August on drug charges is back in police custody.
About half of the estimated 228,000 inmates in Indonesia’s prisons are being held on drug charges, officials say.
The Indonesian police say they seized Mr. Beasley on Saturday in front of a budget hotel in the tourist town of Senggigi.
Mr. Beasley paid a local fisherman for the use of a boat to cross the channel separating the two islands, they said.
Mr. Beasley was arrested in August on suspicion of possessing more than five grams of hashish.
On the night of the break in June, only five guards were reportedly on duty.
