Santa Elena Ecuador: Mayor Victim of Armed Robbery in Gated Community

extra.ec (machine translated) Six armed men entered at 03:00 today, Thursday, June 22 at the home of the mayor of Santa Elena, Dionicio Gonzabay Salinas , and assaulted him, according to a police report.

Gonzabay told investigators that while he was resting with his wife, armed men entered the bedroom to intimidate and tie them; After that they committed the robbery.

The official lives in a private urbanization of this canton and the pillos would have entered his home by the back of the same, to commit the crime.

The affected one told the agents, that possibly this would be in reprisals by the position that it bears and the political problems.

Police said they were stripped of seven Iphone , televisions, jewelry valued at USD 5,000 , USD 7,000 in cash and a laptop.

The uniformed officers investigated the guards of the urbanization and they said that on their shift (from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Thursday) there was no entrance of suspicious vehicles to the place. Read Article

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