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 ...

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 ...

A former hitman who killed hundreds of people for the late drug lord Pablo Escobar has died following a short battle with cancer. Jhon Jairo Velásquez, who was also widely known as Popeye, died at the ...

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, 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 ...

BOGOTA, 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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...