Escobar was born in Rionegro, Colombia in 1949 and established a drug cartel in Medellín in the 1970s. At its most active, the gang supplied an estimated 80% of the cocaine smuggled into the ...

One by one, prosecutors in the U.S. have sentenced other people linked to the gang to lengthy times behind bars. The list now ...

An east London drug gang leader who compared himself to notorious Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar has been jailed. Shahen ...

Escobar was the leader of the Medellin drugs ... a part of rival Colombian drug gang the Cali cartel, was co-ordinating the attack and he wanted Tomkins to recruit a team to carry it out.