Ten Most Common Crimes in Ecuador

Posted on July 10, 2014 • Filed under: Crime, Ecuador

TEN MOST COMMON CRIMES IN ECUADOR

1. ROBBERY OF INDIVIDUAL
2. HOME BURGLARY
3. VEHICLE THEFTS
4. ROBBERY OF BUSINESS
5. MOTORCYCLE THEFTS
6. SEXUAL ASSAULTS
7. THEFT OF VEHICLE PARTS AND ACCESSORIES
8. VEHICLE DEATHS
9. HOMICIDES
10. THEFT OF OUTBOARD MOTORS

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Elcomercio.com reported… Did you lose your vehicle? You they assaulted on the street? He came out of holidays and stole your home? If he denounced one of these crimes in recent months perhaps if part of the list of crimes of greater influence psychosocial prepared by the Security Ministry coordinator. The report met this Wednesday, July 9, and there is detailed, 1 to 10, major crimes that hit to Ecuadorians. The study was based on allegations that the victims presented in the Prosecutor’s Office and the police in the last year. He stole people, which usually occurs in public, is the crime with more complaints. In the last two weeks, three criminal groups presumably assaulted persons were arrested in the capital. In the first operation investigators arrested 10 people and isolated four minors. According to the agents, “intelligence efforts deployed by more than two months allowed locate these urban criminal networks dedicated to the I mugging and arranche belongings, who remained in distress to dealers and customers of the market San Roque”, in the center of Quito. Earlier this month, uniformed district La Delicia isolated two minors and an adult arrested in the sector of Ponciano, in the North of the city. Official Geovanny Naranjo said after the operation that boys allegedly engaged in assaulting people after leaving classes in a “College”. Another similar event is reported in the Chillogallo sector, in the South of the capital. The Eloy Alfaro district police arrested seven young and isolated four children during an operation developed the night of Thursday, July 3. The agents arrested them after the denunciation of two young men who said they have been assaulted. According to the account of the victims, a group of boys approached them and threatened them with sharp weapons. “They stole from us cell phones and $ 60”, mentioned one of the teenagers. Followed by this crime, are the theft of vehicles and homes, according to the report by the Ministry of security. Despite the listing, the official figures concern a reduction in all crimes except the theft to motorcycles. Read Article

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