The Department of Justice (DOJ) alleged on April 2 that the leader of a violent Ecuadorian gang, who remains at large, depended on bribes, military weapons, and hitmen, also known as sicarios, to import tons of cocaine into the United States.
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York issued an indictment on April 2 against José Adolfo Macías Villamar.
“These sicarios regularly used military-grade weapons like machine guns, AK 47s, and grenades to perpetrate violence, including murder, torture, and kidnapping to further the goals of the organization,” U.S. Attorney John Durham wrote in the charging document obtained by NTD, sister media of The Epoch Times….