This device was apparently used to intimidate the owner of a place in this sector, whom they wanted to extort.
Esmeraldas
A stick of dynamite was deactivated by specialists from the Intervention and Rescue Group (GIR), who unknown persons located in front of the type C Las Palmas health center, in the north of the city of Esmeraldas.
This device, apparently, was used to intimidate the owner of a place in this sector, whom they wanted to extort.
It is the hypothesis of the preliminary investigations of the National Police, subzone 8 of Esmeraldas.
The event caused concern among those who live in the sector. In October last year, after an explosion and subsequent shooting in the Casa Bonita neighborhood, south of Esmeraldas, one person died and five others were injured (including two minors).
Joffre García, deputy of the police command, revealed that criminal organizations use these types of threats to obtain money.
One person died and five others were injured after the detonation of an explosive and a shooting in a house in the south of Esmeraldas
In 2021, explosives were deactivated in the 20 de Noviembre neighborhood and on Piedad Island, in the Emerald capital.
He also showed his concern for the release of people apprehended in flagrante delicto and with a criminal record.
One of these cases happened this weekend, when police agents captured three subjects dedicated to the theft of economic entities and commercial establishments.
The robbery of a service station in the rural parish of Tonsupa (Atacames), by two subjects on a motorcycle, is also being investigated at nightfall on Monday 10.
While from 1 to 10 of this month, 995 police operations were carried out with 47 detainees for various crimes, three criminal organizations dismantled, one of them to the robbery in road axes, 1 explosive detonated, 15 firearms, 25 knives, 22 ammunition . (I)
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