Jakarta. Police are still searching for Cai Changpan, a death row prisoner founded guilty of drug smuggling, who handled to escape prison by digging a tunnel.
The Chinese detainee had actually broken out of the Tangerang class I penitentiary on Sep. 14, 2020, specifically at 2.30 a.m. by bending through a self-dug tunnel.
The 30- meter long and 2.5-meter size tunnel links his cell to the sewers simply outside the penitentiary.
Practically 3 weeks have passed considering that his prison break.
While Cai’s real location stay a mystery, authorities have made numerous discoveries on his escape plan after questioning 14 witnesses, including his partner, cellmate, and prison officers.
During questioning, the cellmate claimed Cai had been digging the tunnel for 8 months.
The escapee would push his bunk bed and dig a hole beneath it, starting from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. At dawn, he would push his bed back to its regular position and begin digging again at night.
Every day, he scooped 2 plastic bags of ground soil, which would later be tossed into the garbage.
“[Cai once] used the cellmate to accompany, however the latter did not wish to be included nor come with him. He had actually likewise taken the cellmate’s cell phone [before breaking free],” Jakarta Metropolitan Police spokesman Chief Comr. Yusri Yunus stated in Jakarta on Friday, as priced estimate by Jakarta Globe’s sibling publication Beritasatu.
Cai apparently had stolen numerous digging tools such as a shovel and screwdriver from a cooking area building within the center.
Not Quite Right
With Cai’s smooth escape, authorities are digging deeper for any possible jail officer involvement. The 53- years old male was just discovered to be missing eleven hours after his escape.
” Throughout these eleven hours, there were three guard shifts. We need to look onto the prison’s watch system,” Yusri stated.
Cai was just discovered to be missing on the 3rd shift.
It was also odd how Cai managed to dig a hole under the guard’s radar for 8 months.
When questioned, Cai’s cellmate claimed 2 prison officers had received an allurement worth Rp 100.000($ 6.73) to run an errand for his digging tools. The wish list consisted of a water pump utilized to drain pipes out the water that would submerge the tunnel.
” The first one, S, was a prison officer. The other, [also with the initial] S, is a civil servant at the penitentiary,” Yusri stated.
Both can potentially become suspects under Article 426 of the Lawbreaker Code.
As of now, authorities have not declared them as suspects.
Into the Woods
As soon as totally free, Cai stopped by at a mom-and-pop store near the facility for a pack of cigarettes.
The police were able to trace Cai’s trails to his partner’s home, thanks to the phone. They have also deployed teams to browse the forest in the Tenjo location as the escapee supposedly had run away into the woods.
Also, Cai is now on the authorities’s wanted list.
In 2017, Cai was sentenced to death for smuggling 135 kgs of drugs. In the very same year, he managed to break out of prison prior to getting caught simply four days later on.
