Pablo Escobar’s top hitman, Jhon Jairo Velásquez Vásquez — nicknamed “Popeye” — died Thursday after a battle with esophageal cancer, according to new reports. Velásquez, 54, died in the early morning ...

A man who had oversight over a web of assassins working for the infamous drug trafficker Pablo Escobar is dead. Jhon Jairo Velásquez, also known as "Popeye," died on February 6 at the National ...

A former hitman for late drug lord Pablo Escobar who confessed to killing hundreds of people during one of Colombia’s most violent periods died Thursday from cancer, prison authorities said. Jhon ...

Pablo Escobar's most notorious hitman, known by the nickname Popeye, died on Thursday at age 57 after a life of crime he celebrated on YouTube, Colombia's prison authorities said. Jhon Jairo Velasquez ...

Jhon Jairo “Popeye” Velásquez, the former enforcer for drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, died Thursday in Colombia from stomach cancer. Velásquez, who was sentenced to prison on extortion charges in May ...

BOGOTA: Colombian police have re-arrested a former hit man for the late drug lord Pablo Escobar as part of an investigation into extortion. The chief prosecutor’s office said Friday that Jhon Jairo ...

The head of Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar's hitmen, a confessed murderer nicknamed "Popeye," was released from prison after helping prosecutors convict a former justice minister. John Jairo ...

A former hitman for the notorious cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar died in Colombia Thursday after a battle with stomach cancer, prison authorities said. Jhon Jairo Velásquez, also known as “Popeye,” ...

A man who had oversight over a web of assassins working for the infamous drug trafficker Pablo Escobar is dead. Jhon Jairo Velásquez, also known as “Popeye,” died on February 6 at the National ...

Gangsters from the cocaine-fueled 1980s are fading away. Jhon Jairo Velásquez, also known as “Popeye,” died on February 6 at the National Institute of Cancer in Bogotá, Colombia, the National ...