A murderer that is notorious worked for Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar has died of belly cancer tumors, Colombian officials state.
Jhon Jairo Velásquez, whom boasted of killing 300 people for Escobar, had been 57.
Referred to as “Popeye”, he had been released from jail in 2014 after significantly more than two decades and established a YouTube channel, attracting higher than a million followers.
- But he was jailed again in 2018 on fees of extortion.
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Velásquez passed away during the National Cancer Institute into the money Bogotá, where he had been treatment that is receiving belly cancer since December.
He was a associate that is near of, who ran a drug trafficking empire through the Colombian town of Medellín that sent several thousand tonnes of cocaine to your United States.
Velásquez provided himself up to the authorities in 1992 and spent 23 years in jail, apparently gaining a track record of the entire stories he told about his life of crime.
After their to produce YouTube had been started by him channel called Repentant.
He was re-arrested for extortion and was taken into custody at a ongoing party hosted by Colombia’s top drugs trafficking investigator.
Escobar’s drug kingdom made him one of the world’s wealthiest guys throughout the 1980s and 1990s. He had been killed by Colombian police in 1993 as he attemptedto avoid extradition towards the United States.
