Ecuador — Crime News in English — Page 6
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- Guayaquil: the link between an ice-cream parlour attack, the murder of two minors and a yellow taxi
- Police dismantle synthetic drug laboratory attributed to Los Tiguerones in Guayaquil
- Death of Polish activist in Ecuador: Polish prosecutor's office opens investigation
- Five alleged members of criminal network arrested in Guayaquil for extortive kidnapping
- Polish national with Interpol red alert detained in Santa Elena on suspicion of criminal links
- Police rescue kidnapped driver and apprehend suspected gang member in south Quito
- Footballer Mario Pineida murdered in Guayaquil; police investigate attack
- Guayaquil mayor Aquiles Álvarez arrested for money laundering and tax fraud
- Remand in custody for two suspects in murder of footballer Mario Pineida in Guayaquil
- Ministry of Education official shot dead in north-west Guayaquil
- Man shot dead outside Guayaquil Regional Prison five hours after gaining release
- Teenager staged own kidnapping in Guayaquil to obtain a PlayStation
- New anti-mafia law in Ecuador: Italian advisers and ban on convicted lawyers
- Homicides in Ecuador fall 27.7% in May under internal armed conflict state
- Police seize 1.5 tonnes of cocaine in Samborondón: two arrested
- Violence in Ecuador: Interior Cities Among World's Most Dangerous in 2025
- Operation Apollo 20 in Guayaquil: 8 arrested and 50 kilos of marijuana seized
- Barcelona SC President Antonio Álvarez Detained for Investigation
- UN welcomes conviction of 17 Ecuadorian soldiers for murder of four minors
- Eight bodies in bags found in Babahoyo, Ecuador, amid wave of violence
- Mayor of Esmeraldas in preventive custody on suspicion of money laundering
- Sister of victim in "the Four of Guayaquil" case shot dead in southern city
- Preventive detention and Interpol alert against former president Correa over bribery case in Ecuador
- Suspected serial rapist arrested in Guayaquil with at least ten complaints
- Drug trafficking in rural Ecuador: disappearances and murders in Guayas, Los Ríos and Manabí
- Ecuador's Armed Forces apologise over deaths of four teenagers in Guayaquil
- Opposition mayor arrested in Guayaquil on suspicion of money laundering
- Joint Ecuador-US military operations against narco-terrorism
- Ecuador and the EU inaugurate first anti-drug Fusion Centre in Latin America, in Guayaquil
- Five footballers murdered in Ecuador in 2025: mafias and betting threaten sport
- Man shot dead in Villa Bonita residential area, north of Guayaquil
- "Lobo Menor" deported to Ecuador after capture in Mexico for Villavicencio murder
- Security guard killed in Santo Domingo restaurant: 13 years prison for attacker