Macías alias ‘Fito’ has 14 judicial proceedings for different crimes, among which are: robbery, organized crime, possession of weapons, drug trafficking and murder for which he was given a maximum sentence of 34 years in prison, of which he had served. 12 years.
It should be noted that this is not the first time that the man has escaped, since in February 2013 he had managed to escape along with other members of his criminal group from ‘La Roca’, a maximum security prison from which he managed to escape for only a few months until was found by the police.
The past of alias ‘Fito’
Fito, the leader of ‘Los Choneros’, a gang that wages war on ‘Los Lobos’ and ‘Los Tiguerones’, two other organizations that operate in the country, began his illicit activities in 2000, when he was arrested for the first time. for a robbery… However, it took eleven years for him to be captured and sentenced for the crimes of organized crime, homicide and drug trafficking.
His rise in the band created in the nineties happened in 2020, after the former leader of Los Choneros, Jorge Luis Zambrano, alias Rasquiña, was murdered when he was shot in a shopping center cafeteria in broad daylight, just a few months after being released from prison, becoming the new head of the criminal organization of hitmen, micro-trafficking, extortion, who were also the first to create links with foreign cartels.
However, after Fito’s arrival at the top of the band, it split up, at which point two cells were created: ‘Los Águilas’ and ‘Los Fatales’.
Although alias Fito had been locked up again in La Roca, a judge ordered weeks later that he be transferred to the Guayaquil Regional Prison where he managed all the operations of his structure.
Likewise, some videos have revealed the parties with musicians and pyrotechnics in one of the patios, in which a video clip of a narcocorrido performed by his daughter, who calls herself ‘Queen Michelle’, a music artist, was recorded. regional.
The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, issued a decree declaring the existence of an internal armed conflict at the national level and ordering the military forces to act to dismantle the 22 transnational organized crime groups that he has declared terrorist organizations. and belligerent non-state actors.