American Who Sawed His Way Out of Bali Prison Recaptured

Two Americans busted out of a "notorious" Indonesian prison earlier this month, with one captured almost immediately. 

The second escapee, 32-year-old Chrishan Beasley (the BBC reports his name as Christian Beasley), evaded detection for nearly a week, but was finally caught Saturday on the island of Lombok, about 100 miles away from Bali's Kerobokan Prison, where he'd been imprisoned since an August drug charge, the New York Times reports. 

"We got him around 9:30pm … in a street outside of a [budget hotel]," the local police chief says. Prison officials believe he escaped in the early hours of Dec. 11 by sawing through the steel bars over his cell, using a rope to descend one wall, then using a ladder left by a construction crew to climb over another wall on his escape route, the AP reports.

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