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Adler Berriman " Barry " Seal (July 16, 1939 – February 19, 1986) was an American commercial airline pilot who became a major drug smuggler for the Medellín Cartel. When Seal was convicted of smuggling charges, he became an informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration and testified in several major drug trials.
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- El Gordo ("the fat one")
- Conspiracy to smuggle narcotics, guns
- Assassination by gunshot
Sep 2, 2015 · Advocate file photo by Mark H. Hunter -- Angola inmate Miguel Velez, 66, serving life for murder of drug informant Adler Barry Seal, with the larger-than-life mural he helped paint at the front of ...
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Mar 28, 2016 · The Story Behind an Infamous Escobar Cartel Assassination. Barry Seal made a killing selling drugs for the Ochoa brothers, but after being outed as a key DEA informant, he was a marked man. Pablo ...
Sep 19, 2023 · Assassin who killed drug informer in 1986 denied clemency. Geo resource failed to load. LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - It was nearly forty years ago when drug smuggler turned DEA informant Barry Seal was murdered in two bursts of machine gun fire outside a halfway house in Baton Rouge. Three Colombians were indicted for his murder, and the case was ...
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Feb 14, 2011 · At 6 p.m. on February 19, 1986, Seal promptly drove up to the Salvation Army in his white Cadillac. As he parked his car, he was approached by a man carrying an assault weapon. Two quick bursts riddled Seal’s head and chest, killing him instantly. On March 27, a state grand jury in Baton Rouge indicted Miguel Velez, Bemardo Antonio Vasquez ...
Feb 28, 1989 · February 28, 1989 at 12:00 a.m. EST. The cloak-and-dagger legacy of Barry Seal lives on in a little town in Arkansas, three years after the international drug smuggler-turned-informer was ...
Feb 3, 2023 · His drug running days ended abruptly when he was killed in a hail of bullets right here in Baton Rouge back in 1986. Seal was back in the news last week as Gov. John Bel Edwards turned down the clemency request of a thug who plotted the murder of Seal. The whole sordid mess will go down in history as a tainted case of drugs, federal informants ...