Javier Pena: DEA Agent Who Tracked Pablo Escobar/ Expert in Medellin Cartel

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Javier tells going from small bust operations in Austin, Texas to
ending up on the case of Pablo Escobar in Colombia. Out of the
academy he was hoping for a bigger city but ended up in Austin.
After applying to go to Mexico, he was given Colombia. The
eye-opening experience of dealing with Pablo Escobar who was
hiding drugs in fruit and humans which we ended up on one of the
biggest cases in the world!


Javier knew Pablo very well from all the studying he did such as
his informants, family, drug movements, money, etc. He explains
Narco Terrorism and the extent of how Pablo would get people to
kill for him by buying them houses and providing for their
families. Pablo placed bounties on police officers of $100 for
each one killed. 


In 1989 Escobar put a bomb on a commercial airline to kill a
presidential candidate that killed 109 innocent people, a bus
with dynamite in front of a building killed more, and the one
that made him Enemy #1 in the world was he killed the
presidential candidate at his rally. Extradition was eventually
signed, which was the green light for Javier and his team. Was
there an order to kill Escobar? 


His self-surrender with his own penthouse prison and how he was
later found after the DEA found his frequency that resulted in
his killing by the Colombian National Police. Pablo’s motto was
that he preferred a tomb in Colombia versus a jail cell in the
United States. Javier said he was probably worth more than $30
Billion at the time of his death! 


 


Javier Pena Links:


DEA Narcos Website: https://www.deanarcos.com/


Netflix Series: Narcos: https://www.netflix.com/title/80025172


Buy the book! Manhunter: How We Took Down Pablo Escobar:
https://www.deanarcos.com/shop


Before the Lights Interview with Steve Murphy & Javier Pena
(4-18-22):
https://www.beforethelightspod.com/beforethelights-episodes/dymv1glth0ujf65z0trqocx9acplf8


 


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