A US man held for drug possession has escaped from Bali’s most notorious prison and is on the run on the Indonesian resort island.<\/p>\n
Local media named the fugitive as Chrishan Beasley, arrested in August for carrying 5g (0.18oz) of hashish.<\/p>\n
The 32-year old made his escape by scaling a prison wall with a fellow inmate who was recaptured immediately.<\/p>\n
Indonesia has very strict anti-drugs laws and frequently arrests foreigners on drug-related charges.<\/p>\n
The maximum sentence for drug trafficking is death.<\/p>\n
Beasley and the other inmate reportedly escaped by climbing over the prison wall with a ladder from a construction project within the prison.<\/p>\n
Other reports suggested the two had cut a hole in the roof with a hacksaw first.<\/p>\n
The US citizen was still awaiting sentencing and it is not clear how much jail time he was likely to get.<\/p>\n
The other prisoner, also from the US, has been named by media as 57-year-old Paul Anthony Hoffman who was serving a 20-month sentence for armed robbery.<\/p>\n
Hoffman was caught immediately after making the escape while Beasley managed to get away.<\/p>\n
In June, there was another jailbreak at Kerobokan, when\u00a0four inmates escaped through a tunnel<\/a>\u00a0they dug under a wall.<\/p>\n Kerobokan prison is also where some of the so-called Bali Nine are held, a group of Australians convicted of drug-smuggling.<\/p>\n Despite protest from Australian authorities, two of the group were executed in 2015, while the others are being held in prisons across Indonesia.<\/p>\n Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"