Ecuador: Band of Home Burglars broken up operating in Four Provinces

GANG CONDUCTING HOME BURGLARIES DISMANTLED – OPERATING IN FOUR PROVINCES OF Pichincha, Azuay, El Oro and Loja

During the operation, electrical appliances and cell phones were seized.

LAHORA.COM.EC (MACHINE TRANSLATED) Crimes such as illicit association, robbery of people and robberies in homes through the modality of estruche are attributed to a criminal organization disarticulated during an operation of the Unit of Intelligence Antidelincuencial (UIAD).

To dismantle this criminal organization that would have been operating in Pichincha, Azuay, El Oro and Loja seven simultaneous raids were made in which six people were arrested, including the alleged ringleader, Andrés A., alias ‘Diegol’.

According to the police investigations, the man was in charge of recruiting people and planning the robberies. Previously, the others involved roamed the homes to know exactly the movements of the owners. Before committing robberies, they knew if the houses were inhabited or not and what property was most vulnerable.preference of this band was the houses alone, the antisocials also operated when the houses were with their owners inside.

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In these last cases, they gagged the victims and then locked them in rooms or bathrooms.

From the information gathered by the Police it was learned that the criminals had links in other provinces to commercialize the stolen objects. In the operations carried out by the UIAD, 49 domestic appliances were stored in houses that served as storage centers. The tools known as ‘goat legs’ were also put in evidence before the authorities.

The police found 39 cell phones that were allegedly stolen.

According to the institution, in addition to violating homes, suspects also engaged in the theft of people on public roads. Read Article