Whereas the Netflix sequence sees Griselda name authorities to arrest her, in actuality Griselda Blanco was arrested at her house in Irvine, California on 17 February 1985 after being tracked by DEA brokers for roughly ten years.
On her arrest, agent Bob Palombo informed The Impartial “She was fairly robust and standoffish, a typical Colombian transfer I’d say, nonchalant, not likely displaying any actual emotion, however once we put her within the automotive, I used to be within the backseat along with her, and the opposite agent was driving. We drove as much as Los Angeles, and once we received near the courthouse is when she turned visibly shaken.”
She was convicted of 1 depend of conspiracy to fabricate, import into the US, and distribute cocaine, with Blanco serving a 15-year sentence.
In 1994, Blanco was additionally charged for the dying of a former cartel member’s son Johnny Castro, a two-year-old boy who was tragically mistakenly killed in a Blanco-ordered hit. In 1998 she pled responsible to the second-degree homicide costs, resulting in her jail sentence being lowered by six years.
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How did Griselda Blanco die?
In response to the BBC, in 2004 Blanco was launched from jail and retired from the cocaine enterprise, being deported to Colombia. However whereas might have been out of the sport she nonetheless had a whole lot of enemies round, along with her finally being shot by a gunman in 2012 as she left a butcher store in Medellín.
As she left the constructing an murderer on a bike shot her twice, notably the identical tactic that Blanco’s hitmen allegedly used on the pinnacle of her profession.
What occurred to Griselda’s youngsters?
Blanco had for sons along with her two husbands: Osvaldo, Uber and Dixon Trujillo, in addition to Michael Corleone Blanco.
In response to Biography.com, Blanco’s three older sons Dixon, Uber, and Osvaldo all went on to comply with of their mom’s footsteps and turn into drug traffickers, with every dying earlier than she did.
Blanco’s youngest son, Michael, nevertheless remains to be alive, and just lately filed a lawsuit in opposition to Netflix and Vergara over Griselda.
