Queen of Cocaine killed in Colombia at 69

A woman who was known as Colombia "queen of cocaine," was killed in the northwestern city of Medellin, police reported Tuesday.

Griselda Blanco, 69, was killed by two shots at close range - not unlike a violent end to say that the authorities ordered its first year in 1970 and 1980.

Witnesses heard the roar of a motorcycle and two gunshot wounds Monday afternoon, Medellin police spokesman Joe Chavarria said.

When authorities arrived on the scene in Bethlehem, a suburb of Medellin, White was found lying on the floor in a pool of blood.

White, known as the "godmother" and "mother mafia" has gained notoriety in the 1970's and 80's, when, according to authorities, was responsible for sending shipments of several tons of cocaine from Colombia to Miami. It was also the mind, the researchers say, the countless murders. This is also linked to the drug Pablo Escobar.

In 1975, White was charged with conspiracy to Miami for the production, distribution and trafficking of cocaine to the United States.

Over the next ten years, lived in Colombia, using false names and documents to hide from the authorities. The Drug Enforcement Administration arrested White in Irvine, California in 1985.

He was sentenced to six years in prison.

But prosecutors had not finished with her. White was convicted in 1994 of ordering three murders in the Miami area. - The murders, including three years Johnny Castro, who was killed while riding in a car with his father's sight - it happened in 1982.

Speaking of his case when he was accused Singleton's, a sergeant with the Metro Dade Police Department, said police believed that White was responsible for dozens of murders in the Miami area.

"If I had been one of the most prolific traffickers in the Miami area, who clearly was one of the most violent. Already have, cautiously, his estimate of participating in at least 40 murders between Miami, Broward and Queens", which said at the time.

After fulfilling his sentence, Blanco was deported to his native Colombia in 2004, where he lived a quiet life apparently. Local media reported that he was killed as he left a butcher with a pregnant daughter-in-law, who was not injured.

According to a report on CNN affiliate Caracol TV, White was the mother of four children. One of them is still serving a sentence for drug trafficking in the United States, and two died. The fourth life in Colombia.