National Police confirmed that four of its members are identified as involved. Three of them have already been sentenced to preventive detention.
Palenque, THE RIVERS
Three members of the National Police were arrested in the Palenque-Vinces district after being accused by a businessman, who reported that they took $ 15,000, firearms, cell phones and other belongings that he kept in his business after they faked a raid on his home and in your business premises.
There is a fourth linked police officer, who was later arrested and who at the end of this edition was awaiting the flagrante delicto hearing.
The National Police, in its official Facebook account, published a statement in which it said that the first three policemen were held in preventive detention for 30 days, after the judge who heard the case resolved that at the flagrante delicto hearing, the night Saturday 30. This as part of the tax instruction that was opened to them.
The three active duty police officers in custody are two men and one woman.
According to the victim, the uniformed men and eight other subjects first entered his home, located in the La Reveza de Palenque compound, and then to his business premises, which is further away from his home. To enter they said they had to make a search of the property. They managed to access the place, despite not having presented the court order, the man stated in his complaint.
After reviewing the entire house and business, the policemen left the site in a patrol car, while the other subjects boarded two motor vehicles without license plates. One was a silver Aveo vehicle and the other was a black car.
Subsequently, the affected person alerted ECU911 of the fact, who notified the Police of that circuit to search for those involved. Hours later, the three policemen were arrested and recognized by the victim, while the other subjects fled the site.
The three detained uniformed men, who work in Guayaquil, stated in the flagrante delicto hearing and formulation of charges that they never entered the home of the affected person and that they only passed through the place by court order, since they were in the canton carrying out alleged proceedings for a investigation of an alleged money laundering.
The two uniformed men are being held in the Babahoyo prison, while the policewoman was taken to the Quevedo Social Rehabilitation Center.
In the official statement of the National Police, it was also argued that internal administrative actions have already been initiated to sanction this type of “misconduct that undermines the image of the institution.” (I)
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