The Ecuadoran government on Sunday extradited notorious drug trafficker Adolfo Macias, alias “Fito,” to the United States, a month after he was recaptured following a 2024 escape from a maximum security penitentiary, the country’s prison authority said.<\/p>\n
The flight transporting Macias landed in New York state on Sunday night, according to the Flightradar tracking site.<\/p>\n
The US Attorney’s Office filed charges in April against Macias, the head of the “Los Choneros” gang, on suspicion of cocaine distribution, conspiracy and firearms violations, including weapons smuggling.<\/p>\n
A letter filed by the US Department of Justice on Sunday said Macias was due to appear in a federal court on Monday “for an arraignment on the Superseding Indictment in this case.”<\/p>\n
The drug lord on Sunday was removed from custody at a maximum security prison in Ecuador’s southwest “for the purposes that correspond to the extradition process,” Ecuador’s prison authority SNAI said in a statement to reporters.<\/p>\n
Macias, a former taxi driver turned crime boss, agreed in a Quito court last week to be extradited to the United States to face the charges.<\/p>\n