Video footage has gone viral of the most exciting yet slow-paced chase scene that Bali has witnessed in quite awhile.
A Honda HRV, dragging a burning motorbike, attempted to make a getaway with armed officers on scooters in hot pursuit on Denpasar’s Jl. Imam Bonjol, Thursday afternoon, around 4pm. Probably because traffic was piling up on the busy road and there was a smoking motorbike slowing things down, the car, surrounded by honking drivers, seems to be moving at a snail’s pace as it tries to flee the scene.
Officers even had to fire some warning shots, because the car just refused to pull over.
One of the most-shared videos of the incident, catches the tail end of the chase and shows the aftermath, with nothing left but a frame of the burnt motorbike and a bullet hole in the back of the car. The car also really took a beating with the front end almost completely worn away.
The director of the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) in Bali, Chief Brig. Putu Gede Suastawa confirmed that it is one of his officers pursuing the car in the viral video.
The perpetrator on the run is a suspect in a drug case, identified as Sinar Putra alias Ade, 40, and is currently in BNN custody.
It’s alleged that Putra tried to escape right when he was about to be arrested, but it’s unclear whether the suspect was on drugs during the incident—though that would explain he thought he had even the slightest chance to get away from the officers when moving so slowly.
It’s believed that when he was trying to flee, Putra ran the car into the scooter and it sparked from being dragged on the asphalt. Information has not been available about the owner of the demolished scooter at this time.
BNN says they are still conducting an investigation related to the incident.
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