Sydney plumber among three Australians arrested over fatal Bali villa ambush
A Sydney plumber and two other Australians arrested over the alleged targeted shooting of two Melbourne men at a Bali villa on the weekend have been brought back to the island to face questioning.
Bali police said one Australian, Darcy Francesco Jenson, was arrested at Jakarta Airport on Monday trying to flee the country, while two other men with Australian passports had been detained overseas. The men were returned to the island overnight.
The suspects could now face the death penalty if convicted in Indonesia and found guilty, but Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs would not say if it was providing consular assistance to any of the detained Australian men.
Indonesian detectives said they seized cars, motorbikes, a sledgehammer and a bloodstained shirt as part of their investigation into the fatal ambush on Saturday that left one Melbourne man dead and another, with links to the underworld, seriously injured.
Two getaway cars were used in the attack – the first was dumped in Tabanan, a neighbouring area, after picking up the alleged attackers in the Badung district, while a second was used to flee Bali and cross over into Jakarta, police said.
The sledgehammer had been bought at a local shop, according to investigators, who were still conducting forensic testing on masks and gloves recovered. Two of the motorbikes seized were used by the alleged attackers during the ambush, they said, while three others seized belonged to the victims.
The manhunt for the two gunmen had put the holiday island on high alert, and photographs from local press captured Jenson's dramatic arrest at Jakarta Airport Monday night.
Melbourne man Zivan 'Stipe' Radmanovic, 32, was shot dead shortly after midnight on Saturday after two men burst into his rented villa at Villa Casa Santisya in Munggu in the Badung district.
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