In Manabí, a driver is sentenced to 13 years in prison for drugs that he mobilized in a heavy vehicle

Portoviejo

José AR was sentenced to thirteen years in prison for the crime of trafficking in substances subject to control for the discovery of boxes of tuna contaminated with drugs in the heavy vehicle he was driving on the Montecristi-Jipijapa road, in Manabí.

A Manabí judge determined that sentence for José R. as the direct author of the illegality typified in article 220, numeral 1, literal d, of the Comprehensive Organic Criminal Code (COIP).

It was learned that in this case a first judge who heard the case at the stage of evaluation and preparation of the trial issued a dismissal for the defendant; However, the Prosecutor’s Office appealed that decision and later another magistrate issued an order to call for a trial and in the final stage the maximum sentence stipulated for this crime was determined.

Almost 90 tons of drugs seized in Ecuador in this 2020; the last one was 8,688 cans of tuna

During the trial hearing, the prosecutor in the case presented various evidence to support his theory: the expert reports of recognition of the scene of the events and the gathering of evidence, in addition to the record of weighing the alkaloid, the versions of the investigating agents and of the who participated in the arrest of the accused, among others, the State Attorney General said in a statement.

The seizure of this drug was carried out on October 2 of last year during an operation carried out at kilometer 5 of the Montecristi-Jipijapa highway.

The amount of alkaloid detected was 862 kilos of drugs inside 8,670 cans of tuna, distributed in 181 cardboard boxes.

The illicit substance found in tuna cans was expected to be shipped to Belgium, according to authorities. (I)