Initially it was suspected that alias ‘Fito’ would be in Colombia, but an intelligence report maintains that the Ecuadorian drug trafficker would have another route.
Image taken from the X count of the Ecuadorian Armed Forces showing the request poster for José Adolfo Macías Villamizar, alias Fito.
The Bolivian security forces activated the search efforts for José Adolfo Macías Villamar, alias ‘Fito’, on January 19, 2024. It occurs after the deportation of his relatives from Argentina.
This is the leader of the criminal gang ‘Los Choneros’ from Ecuador. The search occurs due to the possibility that he is in this country, after his escape from a prison in Guayaquil.
The Vice Minister of the Interior Regime and Police, Jhonny Aguilera, said that in Bolivia a “nominal relationship” has been taken that those who fled some days ago from some prisons in Ecuador, including ‘Fito’, to “carry out search and location activities”.
“Understanding that (those people) are part of transnational criminal organizations, we are interested in monitoring and monitoring this activity,” he indicated.
Aguilera also mentioned that as soon as the Bolivian security forces have “news” about the location of ‘Fito’ or the fugitive prisoners, if they are in Bolivia, they will report to the Ecuadorian Government.
Likewise, the vice minister stressed that both Bolivia and its neighbors “have porous borders,” which “makes it difficult to control legal or illegal entry activities” into the country.
‘Fito’ escaped from the Guayaquil Regional Prison before the Ecuadorian authorities went to look for him in his cell to isolate him in the neighboring maximum-security prison of La Roca. The action was part of the beginning of the plan of the Government of President Daniel Noboa to regain control of the prisons.
Then there was a wave of attacks and violent actions such as the kidnapping of police officers, murders, explosive devices, burning vehicles, the incursion of armed people into the TC Televisión channel and riots in prisons.
In those riots, at least 87 prisoners managed to escape, mainly from the Esmeraldas and Riobamba prisons.
Until now, the whereabouts of both ‘Fito’ and Fabricio Colón Pico, considered one of the leaders of the ‘Los Lobos’ gang, are unknown, and it is speculated that he could have passed clandestinely to Colombia.
While several relatives and friends of ‘Fito’ were detained in Argentina and later deported to Ecuador, without their number or identities being specified.
