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Thirteen people, including women and minors, were apprehended by the National Police in an operation and house raids in the La Guacharaca sector, November 20 neighborhood, west of the city of Esmeraldas.
The intervention in said sector was carried out on Monday of this week with the support of the Armed Forces and based on police intelligence reports. Six motorcycles reported as stolen were recovered and four firearms, feeders and marijuana were seized, explained Javier Buitrón, head of the Esmeraldas special zone.
Three women and two adolescents are among those detained for investigations, one of them with an arrest warrant, accused of contract killings. “We are collating information since the assassins (hit men) do not have judicial records for sneaking away after the crimes,” Buitrón said.
One deceased and one injured in shooting in Esmeraldas neighborhood
He hopes that the relatives of the murdered victims present the judicial complaints to continue with the police investigations, he indicated.
The Minister of the Interior, Patricio Carrillo, highlighted on his Twitter account that it is a great job by the Esmeraldas Joint Task Force that allows the dismantling of gangs dedicated to drug trafficking and hired assassins.
But violent deaths and robberies continue in the green province, after the state of emergency ended last June. Between Friday and Monday the 11th, five selective murders were recorded in Esmeraldas and Tonsupa, including a tourist businessman from Atacames and a 14-year-old teenager.
A tourist businessman is murdered outside an Atacames court
On Sunday, two robberies were recorded, committed by subjects with firearms and on board two motorcycles, in the onion store on Cristóbal Colón and Manuel Cañizares streets, and on Olmedo avenue, diagonal to the Margarita Cortez educational unit. The robberies were recorded by private video surveillance cameras.
Meanwhile, in the educational unit 9 de Octubre in the city of Quinindé (center of the province), criminals would have left written threats on a blackboard on the tenth parallel B. Personal belongings and electronic equipment were stolen from the campus.
The people of Esmeralda demand the declaration of a new state of exception due to selective crimes and other crimes. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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