2024-01-11 03:42:17
José Adolfo Macías ‘Fito’, the leader of ‘Los Choneros’, the largest criminal gang in Ecuador and one of the most dangerous, was included in the rewards program to capture the most wanted criminals, following he escaped from the prison where he was serving a 34-year prison sentence.
The ‘131 Together for Security’ program of the Police and the Armed Forces of Ecuador does not specify the amount that the person who provides information would receive to recapture alias ‘Fito’, whom the authorities did not find last Sunday in his cell when he was going to be transferred and isolated in a maximum security prison.
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The Government has not detailed how ‘Fito’, one of the most dangerous prisoners in the country, escaped following being sentenced in 2011 to 34 years in prison for crimes such as drug trafficking, murder and organized crime.
However, according to President Daniel Noboa, “in the last two governments,” the prisoner “entered and left the prison like Pedro through his house.”
“The moment he finds out, through a leak of information, that we are going to move the heads of prisons that are not maximum security, and we are going to put them in isolated places, the guy leaves,” he said in a radio interview this Wednesday.
The Ecuadorian Prosecutor’s Office filed charges on Monday once morest two prison officials who were allegedly involved in the escape of ‘Fito’, who was held in the Guayaquil Regional Prison, a penitentiary center apparently controlled by ‘Los Choneros’.
In his cell he had a television, an internet modem and was decorated with various paintings, as was proven in an intervention carried out last year by the Police and the Armed Forces to seize weapons and explosives housed by criminal gangs inside Ecuadorian prisons. .
The escape of ‘Fito’ occurred at a time when the Government of President Daniel Noboa was seeking to initiate a tough policy once morest criminal gangs to isolate their leaders until two new maximum security prisons are built in the style of El Savior.
This would be the second time that ‘Fito’ circumvents Ecuador’s prison system, as he also did so in 2013 when he escaped from La Roca prison in Guayaquil, although he was recaptured two months later.
‘Los Choneros’ emerged in the 1990s in Chone, a city in the coastal province of Manabí, and progressively gained power on drug trafficking routes, particularly in the transit of cocaine from Colombia to be later transported by sea. towards the Mexican cartels, according to police reports.
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According to the same authorities, they are currently dedicated to drug trafficking, extortion, hitmen and arms trafficking, among other crimes.
The confrontation between criminal gangs has been the reason for the series of prison massacres that have been recorded in Ecuador since 2020, with a balance so far of more than 400 prisoners murdered.
Along with ‘Fito’, Fabricio Colón Pico, the alleged leader of the criminal gang ‘Los Lobos’ who escaped from the Riobamba prison on Monday along with 31 other inmates, was also included in the reward program, and who will be questioned by Attorney General Diana Salazar. charges of intimidation when considering that he may be behind a plan to attack her.
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