lThe National Police and the Armed Forces of Ecuador arrested a man nicknamed ‘Boris’, considered one of the “drug czars” in the country, while participating in a “big narco party” in which two police officers on active duty were also present.
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‘Boris’ was one of the two arrested at the aforementioned party, as representatives of the Police and the Armed Forces stated in a press conference this Wednesday.
The alleged ringleader of the criminal group ‘Los Choneros’ He had a previous arrest for the crime of murder (2015) and for possession and carrying of weapons (2020).
In the raid on the property in the coastal province of Guayas, where the “narco party” was taking place, law enforcement seized four pistols, seven feeders, 112 ammunition, four cell phones, $2,400 in cash, and five checks for a total of 240,000 dollars.
Likewise, they found a tunnel and a place where drugs were allegedly stored, and four high-end vehicles were seized, one of them with type V armor, which supports a caliber of 7.62 millimeters.
The Ecuadorian justice ordered this Thursday the preventive detention of ‘Boris’.
Military operation in the sector #The little onealias Boris, belonging to the GDO Los Choneros, was arrested at a narco-party
-3 weapons.
-6 feeders.
-111 ammunition.
-2400 dollars in cash.
-$200,000 total amount in checks pic.twitter.com/neP5baRUVh— Armed Forces of Ecuador (@FFAAECUADOR) June 12, 2024
Police officers on active duty were also captured
The general commander of the Police, César Zapata, reported that during the raid on the property where the ‘narco party’ was taking place, there were two active duty police officers who, although they were on their day off, were carrying their weapons when they were captured.
Ecuador is fighting against organized crime gangs, dedicated mainly to drug trafficking, and to which the rise of violence in the country is attributed.
The growing wave of criminal violence has made Ecuador rank among the most violent countries in Latin America, with a homicide rate of 47 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2023, according to data from the Ecuadorian Organized Crime Observatory (OECO).
Since the beginning of the year, the Government of President Daniel Noboa has elevated the fight against organized crime to the category of “internal armed conflict”, thereby classifying these gangs as terrorist groups and non-state belligerent actors.
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Ecuador suspends face-to-face classes in an area
The Government of Ecuador suspended face-to-face classes in the evening cycle this Wednesday in two educational centers in the city of Daule, located in the metropolitan area of Guayaquil, after the shooting of a young man on a public street, apparently a student at one of these schools.
According to local media reports, the victim, who was wearing a school uniform and carrying a backpack, was shot by armed individuals and died this afternoon a short distance from the educational institution to which he allegedly belonged.
The Ministry of Education reported in a statement that, after learning of the event, it decided to change the evening cycle classes in the ‘Ecuador Amazónico’ and ‘José Luis Tamayo’ schools to the “non-face-to-face” modality.
In addition, it decided to provide psychosocial assistance to the affected educational community and establish working groups with family members, teachers and students from the institutions to develop emotional containment actions.
The Ministry also announced that “The actions and contingency and security plans of the affected educational institutions will be strengthened”.
The Education Ministry, in the statement, regretted and “flatly rejected the acts of violence recorded” and urged the community to “build a culture of peace and respect inside and outside the classrooms.”
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