Ecuadorian police captured Darío Javier PN on Saturday, a subject he has “narrow links“With a dissident group of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and that It is required by the United States justice, according to Interior Minister John Reimberg.
The subject known to the Alias de Topo was captured near the community of Limonchocha, in the area of Tena, in the Amazon province of Napo. “It has close links with the dissident Colombian group of the FARC ‘Front Carolina Ramírez’ and is also leader of the ‘Choneros-Samfatales‘“He said in reference to one of the local criminal groups to which the president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, described as”Terrorists“, as well as the United States.
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Alias Topo too “It is requested by the Court of Justice of New York for the crimes of drug trafficking and money laundering“The minister added.
“This little angel will do Fito very soon in the United States“He said in reference to José Adolfo Macías Villamar, leader of the Choneros, who Recently he was extradited from Ecuador to the United States to face drug trafficking charges.
Reimberg added that Alias Topo has two capture tickets in force in Ecuador “For its wide criminal record, including illicit traffic of firearms, chemical weapons, nuclear or biological, as well as murder“
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“Nevertheless, He has been arrested four times for arms trafficking, illicit association, extortion kidnapping and alimony And yet he was released with periodic presentation substitute measures every eight days, “he said in his social network X.
He recalled that one of the capture tickets against Darío Javer PN is for the murder of the police agent Byron Morejón, on June 1, 2024, and “He has a sentence of August 1 from 2025 to 34 years, 8 months for the murder of the police officer. We are not going to stop until they are left to all where they should be: in jail“Reimberg concluded.
“War against narcoterrorism”
Ecuador is going through an unprecedented escalation of violence, propitiated by the increase in activity of organized criminal gangs. With 4,619 homicides between January and June throughout the country, Ecuador registered the most violent semester since there are recordsaccording to data from the Ministry of Interior.
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Last Wednesday, the government announced a new phase in the “War against narcoterrorism“, which will take place in three axes: direct territorial control and offensive; Strengthening of intelligence and special operations; and neutralization and elimination of objectives.
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Although the new military strategy contains reserved components, the Ministry of Defense said the efforts will be concentrated in the Provinces of Manabí, Guayas, Los Ríos, El Oro, Carchi, Sucumbíos, Orellana, Zamora Chinchipe and Morona Santiago.
EFE
