Griselda Blanco

The Black Widow, Griselda Blanco Restrepo, was a Colombian drug lord who operated in Miami's cocaine underworld from the 1970s until the early 2000s. She was a member of the Medelln Cartel. At the age of 69, she was shot and killed on September 3, 2012.

### Biography

early years

On the north coast of the nation in the city of Cartagena, Griselda Blanco Restrepo was born. At age three, she and her mother, Ana Blanco, relocated to Medelln. She started living a criminal lifestyle as soon as she got there. Charles Cosby, Blanco's former partner, recalled how at the age of 11, she allegedly abducted, tried to hold for ransom, and then shot a youngster from a posh flatland community close to her own neighborhood. Blanco had already transformed into a pickpocket before she turned thirteen. She ran away from home at the age of 19 and engaged in looting in Medelln till the age of 20, all in an effort to avoid the sexual assaults of her mother's boyfriend.

### drug industry

Miami Drug War, also

In the cocaine trafficking from Colombia to Miami, New York, and California, Blanco played a significant role.

She entered the country illegally in the middle of the 1970s using fake passports, settling in Queens, New York. She created a significant cocaine business there, and in April 1975, she and 30 of her employees were charged on federal narcotics conspiracy charges. Before she could be detained, she escaped to Colombia; nevertheless, in the late 1980s, she came back to the country and settled in Miami.

Her homecoming roughly corresponded with the beginning of highly visible, bloody disputes that resulted in hundreds of murders and other violent homicides each year and were connected to the high crime epidemic that engulfed Miami in the 1980s. The Miami-Dade Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration collaborated to form CENTAC 26 as a result of the effort by law enforcement to stop the flow of cocaine into Miami.

Blanco participated in the cocaine cowboy wars or the Miami Drug War, which tore through Miami in the late '70s and early '80s. At that time, cocaine trafficking outpaced cannabis trafficking.

The distribution system, which covered the entire country, brought in $80 million per month.

### Arrest

The Drug Enforcement Administration detained Blanco at her residence on February 17, 1985, and she was accused with conspiring to produce, import, and distribute cocaine. She was found guilty and given a 15-year term after the case was tried in federal court in New York City.

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She was liberated and sent to Medelln in 2004. She was last seen at the Bogota Airport in May 2007 before she was killed in 2012.

### Death

Blanco spent $150 on meat on the evening of September 3, 2012, at the Cardiso butcher shop on the corner of 29th Street in Medelln. She was shot in the head and shoulder by a motorcycle rider who entered the business, and she passed away at the age of 69.

### Private life

Dixon, Uber, and Osvaldo, the three sons Blanco had with her first husband, Carlos Trujillo, were all uneducated.

With her third husband, Daro Seplveda, Blanco gave birth to her youngest son, Michael Corleone Blanco. When he and Blanco disputed about who should have custody of the children, her husband dumped her in 1983, went back to Colombia, and abducted Michael. Seplveda was murdered in Colombia at Blanco's expense, and her kid was later delivered to her in Miami.

Michael was raised by his maternal grandmother and legal guardians; his father and older siblings were all killed before he reached adulthood, the Miami New Times reports. In 2012, Michael was placed under house arrest following an arrest in May on two felony counts of cocaine trafficking and conspiracy to traffic in cocaine. He spoke about growing up alone in a 2018 episode of the Investigation Discovery documentary series Evil Lives Here. He was a character in the 2019 VH1 documentary series Cartel Crew, which follows the offspring of drug lords. Additionally, he owns the apparel line Puro Blanco.

Michael claims that his mother underwent a Christian conversion.