Security in exchange for $3,000 is what alleged extortionists offered the owner of a commercial premises selling cell phones, in the Pedro Vicente Maldonado canton, in the northwest of the province of Pichincha.
Otherwise, the threat was to attack his integrity and that of his family.
To demonstrate the scope they could have, they would have left, at the victim’s house and business, two envelopes with photographs in which he and his children appeared.
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Those photographs were presented at a flagrante delicto hearing in which charges were filed against Bryan S., Édison M., and Adrián R., who are behind bars with pretrial detention.
The prosecutor in charge cited the versions of the merchant and his daughter, who was running the business when one of the alleged extortionists approached the premises to ask for money in exchange for security.
That day he followed him to a motorcycle where he got on and wrote down the license plates with which he reported to the Police.
The police officers tracked the motorcycle and carried out a raid in which three people were apprehended.
In the building they found the clothing in which the suspects appear in security camera videos.
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The victims were also granted protection measures. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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