Police personnel indicated that if there was any celebration in the maximum security pavilion, the SNAI should investigate it.
The director of the National Service for Comprehensive Attention to Adults Deprived of Liberty and Adolescent Offenders (SNAI), Bolívar Garzón, must investigate the reason why Fausto R., former director of the Regional prison, was in a state of alcohol in the interior from the prison last Friday, they suggested uniformed members of the National Police last Saturday.
The former director was arrested last Friday night when the vehicle in which he was transporting collided with a patrol car, outside the prison complex, on the road to Daule, north of Guayaquil, reported General Fausto Buenaño, commander of Zone 8 of the National Police.
Uniformed men approached and realized that the one who was driving was a prison guide, that he was on liquor breath, and that in the back was the former director, also in a state of alcohol.
Then traffic agents came to make the verifications of the accident and when interviewing the former director, he raised his voice to the agents and tried to attack them and the police officers at that point after the crash, is detailed in the police report.
For this reason, the SNAI ordered that Colonel (sp) Mario Augusto Mendieta be in charge of the Regional jail from that Saturday, while Fausto R. was notified about the termination of the appointment of free removal.
According to staff who work in the jail, last Friday a celebration took place among the inmates in the maximum security pavilion, a supposed championship with leaders of criminal gangs.
However, this information was neither confirmed nor denied by uniformed personnel or SNAI personnel last weekend. “If there was a party inside the prison, that will have to be investigated by the SNAI,” Buenaño said at the press conference.
Both officials were arrested, both the former director and the former guide, and taken to a flagrante delicto hearing for violation.
During the hearing, the former official accepted the conciliation agreement in asking for a public apology to the uniformed men who were there during that operation.
“Your Honor, I apologize for the case, I was asleep, I argued, I spoke, but I publicly apologize for the case to the institution, to the police, to whom I owe because I work with them. apologies, it was not my intention, it will not be repeated, I am very sorry ”, were the words of the former director, as detailed in the report of the hearing of the Judicial Branch.
There it is also reported that the uniformed man accepted the apologies and that it is desired that this event does not pass to greater, so the judge made the conciliation process valid.
However, the prison guide was sentenced to 20 days in prison for driving while drinking. (I)
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