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- Tuk-tuk driver shot dead in south Guayaquil
- Ecuador traces illicit money flows to dismantle organised crime networks
- Observatory demands Ecuador tackle organised crime financial networks
- Shooting on Guayaquil's Perimetral leaves one dead, two wounded and one officer injured
- Curfew in five Ecuadorian provinces: 58% of homicides occur at night
- Five detained in Posorja for dismembering corpse linked to Los Lobos
- Police officer dies in armed attack on community policing unit in Quinindé; attacker shot dead
- Woman detained in connection with murder of 16-year-old in North Florida, Guayaquil
- Cocaine in banana containers: Noboa family company linked to three seizures since 2020
- Police officer killed in attack on Quinindé community police unit: one agent dead and another wounded
- Femicides and organised crime advance in Ecuadorian Amazon, according to FLACSO
- Ecuador imposes fourth night-time curfew of the year in key drug-trafficking provinces
- Operation Apollo 35 in Guayaquil and Durán: 22 arrested, firearms and stolen motorcycles seized
- Operation 'Apollo 35' in Guayaquil and Durán: 22 detained, weapons and stolen motorcycles seized
- Four suspected FARC dissident leaders detained in Ecuador for killing military personnel
- Operation Muralla: four leaders of Comandos de la Frontera captured in Ecuador
- Three escapees from Santo Domingo prison recaptured by Ecuador police
- Three escaped prisoners from Santo Domingo jail recaptured; three others remain at large
- Three recaptured after escape from Bellavista prison in Santo Domingo
- Two escaped prisoners recaptured in Santo Domingo and will be transferred to El Encuentro
- Two escaped prisoners from Santo Domingo jail recaptured; to be transferred to El Encuentro
- Two arrested after police pursuit in Guayacanes, north of Guayaquil
- Six inmates escape from CPL Santo Domingo No. 1; Police issue public alert
- Six inmates escape from CPL Bellavista in Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas
- Nueva Prosperina registers 54.4% fewer violent deaths in 2026: operations and fall of gang leaders
- Andreina Lamota, sentenced for killing her mother, also charged with murder of friend in Guayaquil
- Six inmates escape from Santo Domingo prison after opening hole in maximum-security area
- Six maximum-security inmates escape from Bellavista prison in Santo Domingo
- Operation CANTABRIA: 20 arrested in Ecuador following joint blow against cocaine network
- Criminal gangs recruit children in Ecuador from neighbourhoods to TikTok
- Police corruption in Ecuador: criminal infiltration and weak controls expose the institution
- Illegal tunnel found in Esmeraldas–Santo Domingo pipeline: 3,000 gallons seized
- 1.6 tonnes of drugs seized at Guayaquil port hidden in machinery
- Cocaine network supplying Mocro Maffia dismantled in Ecuador: 21 arrested
- Seizure of 1.6 tonnes of cocaine at Guayaquil port bound for Mexico
- Operation Apollo 33 in Guayaquil: 16 detained and 13 bags of homemade explosives seized
- Heavy vehicle driver arrested after assaulting ATM officer in Guayaquil operation
- Ecuador arrests financier of 'Pipo' in international operation against Los Lobos
- Contract killing in Mapasingue Este: man shot dead in north Guayaquil
- Court upholds three-year prison sentence for Guayaquil Mayor Aquiles Alvarez in Grillete case
- Ecuadorian police arrest 15 high-level criminal targets and strike 31 criminal cells in one week
- Court rejects annulment in Grillete case: Mayor Álvarez maintains three-year sentence
- Drug trafficker escapes from Hospital Monte Sinaí in Guayaquil without police custody
- Guayaquil Mayor, Detained Since March, to Undergo Surgery for Inflamed Gallbladder
- Femicide in Cuenca: 26 years' imprisonment and $214,300 in reparations for victim's children
- Man shot dead in Chongón residential development, Guayaquil
- Couple killed leaving gated community on road to Daule, Guayaquil
- Three crimes in less than 24 hours shake Guayaquil under state of exception
- Guayaquil mayor, detained since February, undergoes gallbladder surgery at private clinic
- Ecuador and USA sign agreement against organised crime infiltration in police
- 530 organised crime aliases in Ecuador: Los Lobos dominate arrests since 2024
- Marco Holguín shot dead in 20 shots in southwestern Guayaquil despite prior threats
- Drugs and psychotropic pills found in Guayaquil school during Operation Shield
- 17-year-old charged with double murder in Santa Ana, Manabí
- Police officer shot dead outside supermarket in Monte Sinaí, Guayaquil
- Police Officer Shot Dead While Playing Cards in Guayaquil Suburb
- Three minors detained over double murder in Juan Montalvo cooperative, Guayaquil
- Ecuadorian prosecutor investigating US attacks on vessels murdered in Manta
- Seizure of 43 kilos of cocaine in Guayaquil: driver detained
- Ecuadorian prosecutor investigating U.S. attacks on vessels in Manta assassinated