![]() ![]() After her trial, Blanco was sentenced to more than a decade in jail. On February 17, 1985, she was arrested by DEA agents in her home and held without bail. In an attempt to escape the hits that were called on her, she fled to California. In 1984, Blanco's willingness to use violence against her Miami competitors or anyone else who displeased her, led her rivals to make repeated attempts to assassinate her. Her violent business style brought government scrutiny to South Florida, leading to the demise of her organization and the free-wheeling, high-profile Miami drug scene of those times. Her distribution network, which spanned the United States, brought in US$80,000,000 per month. It was the lawless and corrupt atmosphere, primarily created by Blanco's operations, that led to the gangsters being dubbed the "Cocaine Cowboys" and their violent way of doing business as the "Miami drug war". This was a time when cocaine was trafficked more than marijuana. Law enforcement's struggle to put an end to the influx of cocaine into Miami led to the creation of CENTAC 26 (Central Tactical Unit), a joint operation between Miami-Dade Police Department and DEA anti-drug operation.īlanco was involved in the drug-related violence known as the Miami Drug War or the Cocaine Cowboy Wars that plagued Miami in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She fled to Colombia before she could be arrested, but returned to the United States, settling in Miami in the late 1970s.īlanco's return to the US from Colombia more or less coincided with the beginning of very public violent conflicts that involved hundreds of murders and killings yearly which were associated with the high crime epidemic that swept the City of Miami in the 1980s. They established a sizable cocaine business there, and in April 1975, Blanco was indicted on federal drug conspiracy charges along with 30 of her subordinates. ![]() In the mid-1970s, Blanco and her second husband Alberto Bravo illegally immigrated to the US with fake passports, settling in Queens, New York. To escape the sexual assaults from her mother's boyfriend, Blanco ran away from home at the age of 16 and resorted to looting in Medellín until the age of 20.īlanco was a major figure in the history of the drug trade from Colombia to Miami, New York, and California. Blanco had become a pickpocket before she even turned 13. ![]() Blanco's former lover, Charles Cosby, recounted that at the age of 11, Blanco allegedly kidnapped, attempted to ransom and eventually shot a child from an upscale flatland neighborhood near her own neighborhood. Upon arriving there, she quickly adopted a criminal lifestyle. She and her mother, Ana Lucía Restrepo, moved to Medellín when she was three years old. Blanco was born in Cartagena, Colombia, on the country's north coast. ![]()
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