The National Narcotics Agency (BNN) Bali has captured the fourth and final narcotics fugitive who busted out of a holding cell last week.
BNN officers arrested M. Feri Ariadi on Bali’s neighboring island, Lombok, after he made a deal to surrender himself and get picked up in Central Lombok.
Ariadi was the final at-large suspect among three other narcotics case suspects that escaped BNN custody on May 16, 2017.
It’s understood that one of the other fugitives, I Wayan Murdana, alias Lengkong, came into possession of a hacksaw, which he used to cut the bars from a holding cell bathroom and break the four men out.
Police say they are still investigating how exactly Lengkong got ahold of the saw, but suspect that it came into his possession when he was in court on May 16.
Police tracked down Heri Agus Sugiono alias Gus Topi, 46, to Karangasem, East Bali and arrested him on May, 17. The second suspect, I Wayan Putu Semarayasa, was also caught on the same day, but in Denpasar. While Lengkong was arrested at a homestay in North Lombok on May 18.
BNN Bali director, Superintendent Ketut Arta explained that the final suspect, Ariadi, gave himself up after his wife told him to surrender.
“On Saturday, May 20, he was asked to surrender. He finally surrendered and came out of hiding,” Arta said on Sunday, as quoted by Tribun Bali.
Ariadi apparently turned himself in on the condition that officers wouldn’t get violent with him after he was picked up.
The narcotics fugitive isn’t to be confused with an escaped Peruvian suspect, who fled Denpasar District Court through a bathroom window.
