A judge of Criminal Guarantees, Luis Tapia Chacón, ordered preventive detention for Kevin Alexander SV and Wellington Byron S. Ch. for the alleged crime of organized crime.
Both were detained with a large quantity of weapons and ammunition of different calibers in a police operation carried out in the Unión de Bananeros sector, in the south of Guayaquil.
Other people who were there managed to evade police action.
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The Police acted after receiving confidential complaints about a group of people who were meeting on public roads carrying firearms.
In flagrante delicto hearing, prosecutor Pablo Cáceres presented the elements of conviction collected, including the informative and arrest report of the defendants, the versions of the arresting agents and the record of the seized weapons, which were placed in chain of custody. of the Judicial Police.
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According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the detainees found a rifle and a pistol each, with their respective chargers; while the rest of the weapons —four rifles and more than one hundred ammunition of different calibers— were found on a sidewalk, near the site.
The Prosecutor’s Office processed this case based on article 369 of the Comprehensive Organic Criminal Code (COIP), which punishes the crime of organized crime with a custodial sentence of seven to ten years. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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