“After the crime committed on the street of a hotel in Guayaquil, the first investigative measures were taken, which made it possible to detain a person who may be involved in this case,” RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Ecuadorian national police.

In February 202, the personal assistant and killer of the Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, John Jairo Velasquez, died of cancer at the age of 55 in Colombia.

It is believed that Velasquez committed more than 250 murders for Escobar and planned the murder of 2,500 more people.