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Friday 21 September 2012

15-year-old shot in the head dies

police said a 15-year-old boy died after he was shot in the head Wednesday night. Officers said he was pronounced dead just before 10:30 Thursday morning. Now officers need help tracking down several people who may be behind the shooting. Police said a white pickup truck with four people inside, all wearing red, drove up on Jose Rodriguez, of Buena, and a friend walking along the 700 block of Madison Avenue. They got into an argument when police say three people inside the truck got out and started chasing the victims. One of them shot Rodriguez once in the head at close range, police said. The boy's friend got away on foot and the attackers drove from the scene. Rodriguez was taken to a local hospital and then transferred to Harvorview Medical Center in Seattle where he was pronounced dead. Police are calling this a gang-related shooting. They said they have identified a person of interest in the case who is being sought for questioning. No further information was given.

Tuesday 4 September 2012

Griselda Blanco, gunned down in Medellin, Colombia Two armed riders pulled up to Blanco as she was leaving a butcher shop in her hometown

Florida Department of Corrections

Griselda Blanco in 2004.

The convicted Colombian drug smuggler known as the “Godmother of Cocaine,” Griselda Blanco, 69, was gunned down by a motorcycle-riding assassin in Medellin, Colombian national police confirmed late Monday, according to the Miami Herald.

Blanco spent nearly 20 years in prison in the United States for drug trafficking and three murders before being deported to Colombia in 2004, the Herald reported.

Two armed riders pulled up to Blanco as she was leaving a butcher shop in her hometown, and one shot her twice in the head, the Herald reported, citing a report in El Colombiano newspaper.

Family members said Blanco had cut her ties to organized crime after returning to her country, the BBC reported. Police said they were investigating the motive.

Blanco was one of the first to engage in large-scale smuggling of cocaine into the United States from Colombia and set up many of the routes used by the Medellin cartel after she was sentenced in the United States in 1985, the BBC reported.

Investigators told the Herald that they estimate conservatively that Blanco was behind about 40 slayings. She was convicted in connection with three murders: Arranging the killing of two South Miami drug dealers who had not paid for a delivery, and ordering the assassination of a former enforcer for her organization, an operation that resulted in the death of the target’s 2-year-old son, the Herald reported.

Three of Blanco’s husbands were killed in violence related to drugs, the Herald reported, and one of her sons was named Michael Corleone, a reference to “The Godfather” movies.

Blanco is credited with originating motorcycle assassinations, the Herald reported.

“This is classic live-by-the-sword, die-by-the-sword,” filmmaker Billy Corben, who with Alfred Spellman made two “Cocaine Cowboys” documentaries, told the Herald. “Or in this case, live-by-the-motorcycle-assassin, die-by-the-motorcycle assassin.”

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