Jose Adolvo Makas, the drug trader required in the United States, was restored in Ecuador after more than a year of escape

Jose Edolfo Makas VillarrEcuadorian President Daniel Nuboa announced on Wednesday that a fleeing drug store known as Vito and wanted by the authorities in Ecuador and the United States, was repeated more than a year after he escaped from prison in the Andes nation.

Ecuador officials said that Macasas, who led a gang called “Los Chuniros” in Ecuador, was arrested in the city of Manta Ecuadoria, his hometown. In April, he was charged in New York City for importing thousands of pounds from cocaine to the United States.

“More will fall, we will recover the country. No truce,” Nubua said In the X publication, the detention of Macías. “We have done our role to move forward in delivering Fito to the United States, and we are waiting for their response.”

Interpol issued an arrest warrant for MacIas after that The mysterious prison escape in early 2024 From the regional prison Guayaquil, where he was serving a 34 -year prison sentence for drug trafficking. The Ecuadorian authorities have not yet explained how he escaped from one of the violent prisons in the country. They only learned to escape when a military squad arrived to transfer him to another prison, the utmost security, but they did not find it in his cell.

The Ecuadorian army confirmed the restoration of Masas in what appears to be the basement of the house. A video presented by the army showed the moment of detention, with an officer wearing an uniform aimed at a pistol at the head of drug dealers, who gave his full name. The officers found him hiding in a small hole under what appears to be the kitchen counter.

On Wednesday’s announcement of his arrest in the same week that Federico Gómez, nicknamed “FEDE”, the leader of another gang called Las Aguilas, was confirmed by an escape from Ecuadorian prison.

Last year, US lawyer John Durham said in a press statement that Massias led Los Choniros and the “Network of Cimsus, Drugs and Weapons” at least 2020.

With a large -scale criminal record, including murder and organized crime, Macías has planted a worship of worship among his gang members and the public in his country of origin.

While he was behind bars in 2023, he released a video directed at the “Ecuadorian people” while armed men surrounded. He also threw the concerts in prison, where he managed to reach everything from alcohol to the roosters for rooster wrestling matches. Los Shuniros also was running his prison in prison, as the authorities claim.

The American embassy and consulate in Ecuador said last year that the escape of Ma Maksa “sparked widespread riots, bombings, kidnapping, the assassination of a prominent public prosecutor, and an armed attack on a television network during a live broadcast.”

The Ecuadorian government and drugs also announced the war on each other, and Nuboa issued orders to “neutralize” criminal gangs after that. The gunmen stormed and opened the fire In the TV studio, the bandits threatened random executions for civilians and security forces.

the The indictment of seven workers He has not been neglected in Brooklyn, and he receives anonymous Masia with the distribution of international cocaine, conspiracy and weapons, including the smuggling of firearms from the United States.

Los Shuniros used people to buy firearms, components and ammunition in the United States and evade Ecuador, according to the indictment. Cocaine will flow to the United States with the help of Mexican cartoons.

The indictment says: “Los Shuniros runs a wide network responsible for charging and distributing multiple quantities of cocaine from South America to Central America and Mexico to the United States and other places,” says the indictment.

Last year, the United States ranked Los Shuniros as one of the most violent gangs and confirmed its relationship with force Mexican drug gangs Those threatening Ecuador and the surrounding area.

Ecuador authorities ranked the gang as a terrorist organization. Earlier this month, the Ecuadorian government announced an increase in the reward for taking Macías to Million dollars.