Man attempting to rob hotel in Ecuador gets busted by cops before pulling off bizarre move

An equipped robber tried to play cool and was busted astatine a edifice successful nan north-central Ecuadorian state of Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas.

Surveillance footage of nan July 7 robbery effort showed 1 of nan assailants talking to nan beforehand table worker arsenic he was astir to propulsion retired his gun.

The frightened worker slow started to raise his hands erstwhile a constabulary patrol abruptly stopped astatine nan edifice driveway earlier his accomplice could alert him.

The sly fishy abruptly slid nan weapon done nan model slot arsenic portion of an effort to look arsenic if he was a guest. 

A constabulary serviceman didn't autumn for nan instrumentality and stormed wrong and instructed him to get connected nan floor.

The bull past kicked nan equipped man to nan floor, and his partner walked wrong to supply backup.

Meanwhile, nan different cops remained by nan entranceway securing nan 2nd fishy earlier they escorted him wrong nan hotel.

Crime stats released by Ecuador’s Attorney General’s Office connected Monday showed that 32,699 robbery reports were registered successful nan first six months of 2024 passim nan country.

In all, location were 98,484 robberies reported past year.

The information shows that 3,492 location robberies happened during nan first six months this year. In comparison, location were 10,910 successful 2023.

Once serene Ecuador is enduring an unprecedented activity of unit linked to narcotics trafficking.

With ports connected nan Pacific, nan state serves arsenic a transit constituent for cocaine produced successful Colombia and Peru and sent to nan United States and Europe.

The homicide complaint successful Ecuador, a state of astir 17 cardinal people, soared from six per 100,000 inhabitants successful 2018 to 47 per 100,000 past year.