ICE: "Godmother of Cocaine" Released From Prison, to Be Deported (Florida)

[Lou_C]

ICE: "Godmother of Cocaine" Released From Prison, to Be Deported
The Associated Press
Published: Jun 6, 2004

MIAMI (AP) - A 61-year-old woman known as "The Godmother" whom police said ran a ruthless cocaine empire in the 1980s was released from prison and set to be deported to Colombia.
Griselda Blanco was in custody of the U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Sunday as U.S. and Colombian officials arranged her travel, bureau spokeswoman Barbara Gonzalez said. Gonzalez said she could not comment on when Blanco would be deported, citing security procedures.

Blanco was turned over to federal immigration officials Wednesday by Florida corrections officers.
Blanco had been serving three concurrent 20-year sentences after pleading no contest in 1998 to second-degree murder charges. Authorities said Blanco arranged three contract killings in 1982 that took the lives of toddler Johnny Castro, 2, and drug dealers Alfredo and Grizel Lorenzo.

The child died when bullets meant for his father, Jesus Castro, hit the boy instead, police said.
Blanco already had been serving prison time for cocaine trafficking when she entered her plea in the killings. She only had to serve about one-third of the sentence because of guidelines in effect at the time of the shootings.

Blanco, who was known for her love of shopping and beauty salons, is described by authorities as a charter member of the "cocaine cowboys" who engaged in drug trafficking, contract killings and gangland shootouts in the 1980s.

"If she owed you money she'd kill ya, and if you owed her money she'd kill ya," said Nelson Andreu, a retired Miami police homicide detective who investigated Blanco.
Blanco was reportedly a fan of the film "The Godfather," naming one of her sons Michael Corleone, apparently after the character played by Al Pacino in the film.


http://ap.tbo.com/ap/florida/MGBBL62Y5VD.html

It looks like the Bush family connection is going home.

[LittleApple81]

1. Why would they deport her? I thought they were trying to get

this type of criminal to be extradited from Colombia to the US for "justice." Anybody has any idea why she is being sent to Colombia? They don't need any more of this type of criminal there... they have enough of this type of thugs there.