This week marks 15 years since former Gold Coast beauty student Schapelle Corby was found guilty of importing 4.2kg of marijuana to Bali in a boogie board bag. Schapelle Corby reacts after being found guilty of drug smuggling charges at Denpasar District Court. Credit: MICK TSIKAS/AAP Speaking exclusively to 7NEWS.com.au, Corby said she had made it …
Crime
Olivier Jover from France was sentenced to 12 years in Bali prison for importing Cocaine using the mail. The 47-year-old Frenchman was arrested in Bali after a package sent from his home country containing some 22.5g of cocaine arrived at the airport with his address on it, according to authorities. In 2019, Jover was arrested …
A man from New Zealand has been arrested in Bali after allegedly being found in possession of methamphetamine. Balinese media are reporting that New Zealand national Andrew Ivan Dolan, 53, was arrested after 0.51 grams of meth was allegedly found at a boarding house he was staying at on February 22. Andrew Ivan Dolan was …
Titian Wilaras has been arrested at a 5-star hotel in the Netherlands and extradited to Bali to face charges of corruption. The owner of Sky Garden had been on the run after being placed on Indonesia’s most wanted list. Wilaras was wanted on charges of corruption related to the Legian Credit Bank of which he …
A foreign national from Hong Kong will face up to 20 years in Bali prison after attemping to smuggle 4 kilograms of methamphetamine into the country. 19-year-old Man Chun Kwok was spared the death penalty after Public Prosecutor Ida Ayu Ketut Sulasmi asked for a 20 year sentence during a virutal trial on Wednesday. “I …
Christian Alit Stroh from Hawaii, United States has been arrested in Bali on drug trafficking charges. According to Denpasar police, Stroh was arrested for allegedly dealing drugs after he ran out of money while stranded on the island due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Stroh was arrested on Friday outside of his residence in Denpasar after …
A Perth man accused of a violent assault on a taxi driver in Bali is expected to reach a peace agreement with the victim. Tore Bempasciuto has been behind bars for almost a week after the 23-year-old allegedly bashed a taxi driver outside a nightclub because he thought the driver might have stolen his phone. It is …
The man responsible for brutally murdering his employer in Denpasar has been captured by police. 55-year-old Senawati Candra was a widow raising four children when she was killed in her home allegedly by Sakim Fadillah, who was an employee who worked for her. The middle-aged woman was found dead on Wednesday afternoon covered in blood …
Australian mother-of-two Sara Connor will be released from Bali’s horrific Kerobokan prison in July. The 49-year-old from Byron Bay has spent the last four years in the notorious prison, after the fatal bashing of a police officer in Kuta in 2016. Ms Connor’s ex-boyfriend and David Taylor, from the UK, is serving a six-year sentence for …
A foreign tourist from Spain was caught stealing food from the Bintang Supermarket in Seminyak on Monday. Luckily for the perpetrator, his two friends offered to pay for the food so he was able to avoid charges by police. Head of Denpasar Police, Kompol Nyoman Gatra, confirmed the incident and said the perpetrator’s attempted theft …
The Covid-19 pandemic is impacting public safety and public order in Bali according to officials. Denpasar Police Chief AKBP Jansen Avitus Panjaitan stated Friday that the situation is now impoving but police need the public’s help in order to keep it under control. The increase in crime has been triggered by the socioeconomic impact caused …
42 people were arrested by the Denpasar and Bali Police Task Force in a sweeping April drug operation. Among the arrested are 17 couriers and 25 habitual drug users. Depasar police official, Mikael Hutabarat told The Bali Sun, “Based on the results we revealed, we found 17 people who served as couriers and 25 people …