Ever since Ecuador’s most notorious gang leader vanished from his prison cell in January 2024, the mystery of his whereabouts ...

Ecuadorian security forces captured the country’s most notorious criminal leader in a key—but mostly symbolic—win in its “war on gangs.” ...

Ecuadoran forces have revealed how they captured the country’s most-wanted man, drug lord Adolfo “Fito” Macías, more than a ...

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Police in Ecuador have recaptured the country’s most wanted fugitive, drug lord Adolfo Macías Villamar. Macías, also known by the alias “Fito”, is the leader of Los Choneros, a powerful criminal gang ...

A fugitive drug trafficker wanted by authorities in Ecuador and the United States was recaptured more than a year after he ...

A year and a half after his prison escape, José Adolfo “Fito” Macías Villamar was found hiding in a secret basement in the ...

Fito’s indictment also demonstrates the United States’ growing role in Ecuador’s gang crackdown. If Fito is captured in Ecuador, he could be the first Ecuadorian criminal to be extradited to the ...

José Adolfo Macías Villamar — known as "Fito" — has led Los Choneros and its "network of assassins and drug and weapon traffickers" since at least 2020, federal prosecutors said.