Colombian cops: "Queen of Cocaine" shot dead

(CBS/AP) BOGOTA - Police in Colombia say an unidentified gunman has fatally shot a convicted drug trafficker once known as the "Queen of Cocaine," or sometimes the "Godmother of Cocaine."

Col. Mauricio Cartagena of Medellin's metropolitan police said Tuesday that 69-year-old Griselda Blanco was gunned down in the city on Monday. Blanco was among the first Colombian women to traffic cocaine to the United States in the 1970s and 1980s.

Cartagena said Blanco was at a butcher's shop when a man approached and fired at her before escaping on a motorcycle driven by another man.

The police official says authorities don't have a firm motive but says it may have been a revenge shooting. Blanco had allegedly ordered so many murders during her time as a top trafficker, her hitmen lost count, according to CBS affiliate WFOR-TV in Miami.

Blanco died on the way to the hospital.

She had returned to Colombia in 2004 after serving a 19-year trafficking sentence in the United States. She escaped the electric chair in Florida though following a sex scandal at the state attorney's office that tainted the case, according to WFOR.

Two of her three sons were murdered the moment the United States deported them back to Colombia and many expected the same for Blanco, according to WFOR.

[baileycccc]

This is a good thing. The streets are safer with one more scum bag off of them.

[baileycccc]

This is a good thing. The streets are safer with one more scum bag off of them.

[SKIP_GREENTREE]

D.E.A. wouldve looked pretty bad assuming the Black Widow had been shot at the columbia airport. They r lucky she didnt come back to the U.S. Build up her cocaine empire again. And send out her Loyal GOON SQUAD out to dismember anyone she had beef with, & they're familys too. oh and snitches too. haha

[MagnaCartaUK]

Are you sure that's realy a woman? She looks as though Rod Steiger could have played her role on film. I don't know about scum like this. Drug barons have their own habit - namely one of mysteriously avoiding justice through various means. Perhaps an assassins bullet would be preferable, rather than risk more misery by this scum going free somehow, and being able to inflict further grief on innocent families.

[aajwc333]

I have an acquaintance whose parents were murdered in front of him by her thugs. He was a toddler. This woman was a monster. If you ever see cocaine cowboys people would realize that she should have been snuffed out a very long time ago.

[timseanc]

Looks like Larry Bud Melman

[jonnyooh]

Looks more like Karl Rove in the middle of gender reassignment surgery.

[keote_poet]

its a rush limbaugh clone

[FP1970]

Latin America has such a rich, vibrant blood-soaked culture. No wonder Obama is so determined to let them swamp America through illegal immigration. I just wish all those pesky "rednecks" would stop getting in the way of the innocent Latin gangs like "NC17" that are setting up shop in the U.S. Don't we want to turn American cities into big Latin American dumps along the lines of Mexico City of Bogata, Colombia?

[netjunkie1]

Racist and stupid is no way to live life.

[bramletabercrombie]

I don't see any Latin Americans shooting up movie theaters or schools. It's more like gang violence, of which we have plenty.

[mcmuffin72]

What a babe!

[rwsmith29456]

This is a WOMAN???

[netjunkie1]

She was bi pedophile.