Ecuadorean police capture fugitive gang leader

Police successful Ecuador accidental they person captured the fugitive person of a almighty transgression gang.

Fabricio Colón Pico, the person of Los Lobos, had been connected the tally since escaping from jailhouse connected 8 January.

Officials said they had traced Colón Pico, who had dyed his hairsbreadth blonde successful an effort to alteration his appearance, to the municipality of Puerto Quito.

Ecuador's attorney-general, Diana Salazar, has accused Colón Pico of plotting to termination her.

Los Lobos is estimated to person immoderate 8,000 members and is thought to person links to the Mexican Jalisco New Generation cartel.

Its members prosecute successful cause trafficking and are accused of moving arsenic hitmen.

Police said Colón Pico had been detained successful the aboriginal hours of Monday "after respective months of investigative work".

Colón Pico was 1 of much than 30 inmates to flight from Riobamba situation connected 8 January during a question of situation riots and convulsive attacks which shocked the Andean country.

The situation work said helium had taken vantage of the chaos created by rioting inmates to locomotion retired of the jail.

Twenty of the fugitives were rapidly rearrested, but Colón Pico managed to evade seizure for months.

Police person not yet said to which situation helium volition beryllium taken.

The apprehension comes conscionable hours aft a bulk of Ecuadoreans backed a raft of tougher information measures successful a referendum.

Ecuador has seen its execution complaint sprout up arsenic transgression gangs specified arsenic Los Lobos person unleashed a question of unit successful its large cities and ports.

President Daniel Noboa has welcomed the support of measures which volition let soldiers to proceed patrolling the streets and the imposition of tougher sentences for cause traffickers.

The president said the authorities would present "have much tools to combat transgression and reconstruct bid to Ecuadoran families".