(26 Jun 2025)
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Guayaquil, Ecuador – 25 June 2025
1. Arrival of the Ecuadorian air force plane IN the city of Guayaquil with José Adolfo Macías alias "Fito"
2. Various of members of the armed forces and national police taking Macías off the plane to put him in an armoured car and transfer him to a maximum security prison
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) John Reimberg, Minister of the Interior of Ecuador:
"A successful operation that we carried out took more than 10 hours of work today. Information was received from the armed forces, the security block was activated and we moved to the city of Manta. After an operation we found the location of alias Fito, he was located in a house he had, underground, in a bunker he had built. A successful operation, we were able to catch him, today he is in the hands of justice, he will be transferred to the prison where he should never have left."
4. Various of the armoured car that will transfer Macías to a maximum security prison
STORYLINE:
A fugitive drug trafficker wanted by authorities in Ecuador and the United States was recaptured more than a year after he escaped from prison in the Andean nation.
Jose Adolfo Macias, alias “Fito” arrived by air at the port city of Guayaquil, where the Minister of the Interior, John Reimberg, said he would "be transferred to the prison where he should never have left."
He said the criminal boss was found in a bunker in Manta, 258 kilometers southeast of the capital.
As soon as Macias disembarked the plane, he was taken to an armored military vehicle amid a large deployment of soldiers.
It was not reported whether he would be taken to the maximum security prison, known as La Roca.
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