Pablo Escobar

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A man with dark curly hair and a patterned shirt smiles in a black-and-white mug shot, holding a sign reading Carcel Otto Judicial Medellin with the number 128482.

Pablo Escobar, wearing a light-colored jacket and collared shirt, looks slightly to the side in a close-up portrait.

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Colombian criminal

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A man with dark curly hair and a patterned shirt smiles in a black-and-white mug shot, holding a sign reading Carcel Otto Judicial Medellin with the number 128482.

Pablo Escobar

A mug shot of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.

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Pablo Escobar, wearing a light-colored jacket and collared shirt, looks slightly to the side in a close-up portrait.

“The King of Cocaine”

Pablo Escobar, 1988.

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Pablo Escobar

Pablo Escobar

Drug cartel leader Pablo Escobar (left) with a bodyguard, 1983.

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