Two Ecuadorians and a Venezuelan citizen were arrested in a building in Carcelén Bajo, north of Quito, where you were hiding two stolen cars.
The theft of a truck from a merchant who was subpoenaed to allegedly negotiate the purchase of the same was the initiation of follow-ups carried out by agents of the Anti-Crime Unit or Sidprobac, in Quito, which ended, last Friday, with the arrest of two Ecuadorians and a Venezuelan who would be part of a criminal organization dedicated to the theft of cars and auto parts.
The crime was committed last Thursday in the Pusuquí sector, at the northern end of the capital. The affected person would have given Knowing the Police of the robbery, he could immediately untie his hands and feet in the place where they left him. There the follow-ups began, although the authorities were already on certain clues, since some car thefts had already been reported not only in the north, but in the center and south of the city.
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Colonel Walter Villarroel, head of the National Directorate of Investigations of the Judicial Police (s), explained that the form of The operation of this group was to summon its victims, who offered for sale their vehicles through various platforms, including digital, in areas that were convenient for criminals.
Already there the assailants tried to take the owners to unpopulated areas, arguing that they should check vehicle operation or have it checked by a mechanic of her confidence. Once they managed to be in a desolate place, with firearms and knives they would bend their victims to take the car.
Something similar would have happened to the person from Pusuquí, who commented that a nephew made the alert of the robbery on social networks and almost immediately the assailants communicated through a call by cell phone to pressure them. The agents who were on the case followed up on the number they contacted and obtained an address.
Last Friday, after uninterrupted monitoring, a home was searched in flagrante delicto in the sector of Carcelén Bajo, north of Quito, where the van stolen the day before was located in a garage. A thorough inspection of the property found a red car that had also been reported stolen.
Inside the building were the Ecuadorians Mateo A. and Yomber C., who maintains a criminal record for trafficking illicit substance abuse, and the Venezuelan citizen Yalecxys B. In the possession of the three detainees, a knife, a firearm with their respective ammunition and a separate other type of high-caliber ammunition that are used for long-range weapons was found.
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In addition, two pairs of plates were discovered that are presumed to be from cars also stolen. Colonel Villarroel pointed out that will determine later if these plates respond to vehicles that were stolen, cloned, taken out of the province or the country with some kind of false document. Long-range munitions, he said, will be disclosed to authorities as an aggravation.
Major Lenin Torres, head of the Sidprobac, mentioned that apart from the deception to which the victim is induced in these cases, criminals as part of the modus operandi gain trust of the person with whom they are going to negotiate to take them to a desolate area. The Pusuquí victim was taken to a guardrail and there they stole the vehicle
The National Police in the Metropolitan District of Quito (DMQ) registers 143 vehicles recovered so far this year. There would also be 279 vehicles as apprehended, which means, Colonel Villarroel pointed out that these vehicles have to go through an expert examination process with which to determine if they have been reported as stolen, since there is the possibility that they have been altered in their alphanumeric series.
According to Colonel Villarroel, these groups dedicated to car theft, after removing them, alter their alphanumeric series, alter the license plate of vehicles that may have similar characteristics in the license plates or at the same time they falsify the public documents, that is, the license plates, the purchase and sale data.
“With all these criminal tricks they proceed to mobilize these vehicles, in order for them to be sold in other cities fraudulently, are used to carry out actions criminal offenses of another nature such as robbery of people or homes, but not in the locality where they are stolen, since the Police begin to track these vehicles. That is why these vehicles are taken to other cities, but we do not rule out that these vehicles are taken to other countries by land borders, by gauges ”, explained Villarroel.
The investigations in this case would continue to determine other accomplices of the gang and even what other types of crimes they had committed. (I)
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