One of the detainees was the driver of an interprovincial transport unit that arrived from Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, on the afternoon of this Thursday 4.
Two subjects were arrested on the afternoon of this Thursday the 4th after being found in possession of blank weapons at the Guayaquil land terminal.
Juan Pablo Luna, deputy chief of the Judicial Police in Zone 8, stated that after a follow-up carried out by investigative agents, they detected two people who were carrying out the cardboard change “in a suspicious manner and with evasive attitudes” on one of the platforms. arrival of interprovincial buses from the terminal.
Immediately, the subjects were approached by police officers, who found eight blank guns and fourteen boxes of ammunition in the cardboard without their respective documentation. They were transferred to the Public Prosecutor’s Office next to the Model Barracks.
One of the subjects, an Ecuadorian national, was the driver of an interprovincial transport unit that arrived from Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas and was loading the carton with weapons and ammunition. The other individual is a Colombian national. Neither has a criminal record.
Luna explained that these weapons, considered non-lethal, cannot be commercialized or be in the possession of citizens, with exceptions such as guards who work in security companies and must have the respective permits from the Joint Command of the Armed Forces.
“Within the investigations that we are carrying out in the country, it has been determined that these types of weapons are also being used to commit criminal acts such as assaults on people, assaults on premises, assaults on means of transport, assaults on economic units, and in Sometimes we have also determined that the barrel of these weapons is changed to put a more reinforced barrel and to be able to activate with ammunition that has metal, which are made of lead, real bullets, ”said Luna.
Police agents carry out investigations to determine the origin of these weapons and their destination. (I)
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