220 detainees and 49 weapons seized in Guayas during the first week of a state of emergency

During the first week of the state of exception, from October 19 to 25 of this year, 11,147 operations have been carried out with the registration of 86,154 citizens and 70,665 vehicles in different areas of the Guayas province.

As a result, the Government of Guayas reported that 220 people have been apprehended for crimes, 49 firearms, 1,1012.9 grams of drugs, 544 motorcycles, 1,647 ammunition, 52 explosives and 3 drones. In addition, 7 bands were dismantled.

In zone 8, which corresponds to Guayaquil, Durán and Samborondón, the forces of order concentrated the deployment of 9,459 operations with the requisition of 40,129 cars and 43,256 people. In the other 22 cantons there were 1,688 interventions with the revision of 15,683 vehicles and 25,924 citizens.

Only in zone 8 there were 132 of the 220 arrested for different crimes throughout the province. The rest were captured in the other 22 cantons.

Among the recent interventions, the Police detained two citizens who had 52 explosives, three drones, two pistols, 1,203 cartridges of different caliber and other evidence in a house in a private urbanization on the road to Daule. Those items, according to the police authorities, were intended to enter the Guayaquil prison complex.

On the morning of this Monday 25, at the headquarters of the ECU-911 in Samborondón, the governor of Guayas, Pablo Arosemena, requested the collaboration of citizens in the operations carried out by the Police, Armed Forces and other entities in different sectors of the 25 cantons of the province. (I)