John Jairo Velasquez (right), who boasted of killing more than 300 people for drug kingpin Pablo Escobar (left), was released from jail on Tuesday after spending 22 years behind bars. ZUMA Press, ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — A man who confessed to hundreds of murders as head of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar’s army of assassins has been freed from a maximum security prison under heavy police guard. John ...

John Jairo Velasquez, or "Popeye" as he is known, has been tied to the murders of at least 3,000 people ( Image: James Breeden/Breeden Media) ...

Bogotá, Colombia (AP) – A man who confessed to hundreds of murders as head of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar's army of assassins has been freed from a maximum security prison under heavy police guard.

BOGOTA, Colombia – A former hit man for Pablo Escobar, who confessed to hundreds of murders as head of the drug kingpin's army of assassins, was freed from prison on Tuesday amid angry protests by his ...

Bogota, Aug 26 (EFE).Bogota, Aug 26 (EFE). — The soontobeparoled former top enforcer for late drug lord Pablo Escobar has asked Colombian authorities for protection, the national ombudsman’s office ...

Velásquez, better known as “Popeye,” admitted to orchestrating thousands of murders under Pablo Escobar’s Colombian drug empire, and killing approximately 300 people himself. He was convicted of only ...

Jhon Jairo Velasquez Vasquez, a top hitman for Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, has died at the age of 57. Colombia's National Penitentiary and Prison Institute (INPEC) confirmed on Thursday the ...

On a sunny Saturday in February, two policemen on a motorcycle stop Jhon Jairo “Popeye” Velásquez as he walks down the driveway of a dilapidated mansion near Medellin, Colombia. The estate belonged to ...

John Jairo Velasquez – the top hit man for notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar in the ’80s, known in Colombia as the “narcoterrorism era” – is a free man for the first time in 22 years. The 52-year-old ...

John Jairo Velasquez has been tied to the murders of at least 3,000 people. He has admitted to killing at least 250 as the head of drug lord Pablo Escobar's terror ...