Ecuador's most infamous gang leader 'Fito' vanishes from cell - BBC News

The prison cell of the leader of the infamous Los Choneros gang, known as "Fito", was found empty.

2 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, ReutersImage caption, Adolfo Macías Villamar is the leader of the feared Los Choneros gangBy Vanessa BuschschlüterBBC NewsHundreds of police in Ecuador are searching for a convicted gang leader who has vanished from his prison cell.

Adolfo Macías Villamar, better known as "Fito", is the leader of Los Choneros, a powerful gang which is thought to have been behind some of the deadly prison riots in recent months.

He was being held in the maximum-security wing of a jail in Guayaquil.

Police said they had noticed his absence early on Sunday and could not find him anywhere in the prison wing.

Fito is a notorious criminal suspected of having played a role in the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio last year, whom he had sent death threats.

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