A judge from Yaguachi, canton of Guayas, granted a release ticket for Alexander Ariel Quezada San Martín, alias Ariel, one of the main leaders of Los Lobos.
The National Comprehensive Care Service for Adults Deprived of Liberty and Adolescent Offenders (SNAI) has confirmed this Friday that Judge Jhon Rodríguez Mindiola resolved to declare, in application of the principle inter communisthe illegality of the deprivation of liberty of Alexander Ariel Quezada.
Alias Ariel records trials for illegal drug trafficking, and the Police have him related as one of the main leaders of Los Lobos. He was detained in Cotopaxi.
The leader of Los Lobos, a gang linked to the latest massacre, obtained a ‘habeas corpus’ for his transfer from jail
Los Lobos is one of the criminal gangs that have been involved in the prison massacres. The Police linked one of the massacres in Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, which caused 44 deaths, 13 injuries and more than 100 escapees, to a confrontation between Los Lobos and the R7.
On July 20, 2020, the Criminal Guarantees Court based in Cuenca found Quezada guilty as the direct perpetrator of the crime of illicit trafficking of scheduled substances subject to control. That court imposed a custodial sentence of five years and a fine of twelve unified basic salaries.
Quezada was in the Turi prison (Azuay) during the massacre at the beginning of April and was one of the leaders transferred to La Roca as a result of the revolt. But from there he was transferred to Cotopaxi.
The SNAI indicated that, being an executing body of judicial decisions, and having a valid order and ticket, it will proceed with the immediate release of the prisoner.
The entity, however, indicated that it will also proceed to request the revocation of the order that grants the freedom to this inmate, considering it contrary to law.
It also reserves the right to file a complaint with the National Council of the Judiciary to investigate the judicial proceeding in this case.
Quezada received at the end of April a habeas corpus partial to leave La Roca and be able to go to another prison. Also, like other inmates who have used resources to be transferred, he alleged threats.
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The chamber of the Guayas Provincial Court that granted the measure ordered that the SNAI, as comprehensive reparation, immediately transfer him to “a social rehabilitation center, according to the level of security that corresponds to him and in a city —preferably the Ecuadorian Sierra— where there is no control of rival gangs to which the plaintiff refers belongs, since in view of the death threats received, a constitutional judge of the city of Cuenca granted him the opportune habeas corpus”.
Source: Eluniverso
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