José Adolfo Macías Villamar — known as "Fito" — has led Los Choneros and its "network of assassins and drug and weapon traffickers" since at least 2020, federal prosecutors said.

Macías was discovered missing from his prison cell in Guayaquil, Ecuador, where he was serving a 34-year sentence for drug ...

The fugitive leader of a violent Ecuadorian gang that relied on hitmen, bribes and military weapons to do business has been ...