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Man who dubbed himself 'Pablo Escobar' set up Counterfeit Street shop flogging thousands of bogus goods

"We hope that this result sends a strong message to other criminals involved in the sale of counterfeit goods that this will not be tolerated."

Manchester Evening News

Pablo Escobar's 'cocaine hippos' top 200, twice as many as we thought

A new census of the world’s largest invasive species reveals the population is roughly double the size scientists previously estimated.

LiveScience

Colombia’s growing ‘cocaine hippo’ problem

Colombia’s authorities are being urged to act against an invasive hippo population introduced by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, after a new census revealed the true extent of the problem.

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Mystery solved after ‘Pablo’ the lamb found in back of car with heroin and chips

Lamb has since been renamed Pablo after the notorious Colombian druglord

The Independent UK

Mystery solved after ‘Pablo’ the lamb found in back of car with heroin and chips

Lamb has since been renamed Pablo after the notorious Colombian druglord

The Independent UK

Mystery solved after ‘Pablo’ the lamb found in back of car with heroin and chips

Lamb has since been renamed Pablo after the notorious Colombian druglord

The Independent UK

These 3 Strategies Could Solve the Problem of Pablo Escobar’s “Cocaine Hippos”

Last week, Colombia recorded its first road traffic incident involving a hippopotamus. A car collided with the animal at speed leaving it dead on the road.

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Pablo Escobar's 'cocaine hippos' are a problem -- but a lot of thought is going into preventing their spread

Last week, Colombia recorded its first road traffic incident involving a hippopotamus. A car collided with the animal at speed leaving it dead on the road.

The Conversation

Enormous hippo descended from Pablo Escobar's herd dies after being hit by a car

The people inside the vehicle were unharmed in the collision which took place on a highway from Bogota to Medellin in the northwest, close to where Pablo Escobar's estate in Colombia

Daily Mirror

An Escobar hippo killed in highway collision in Colombia

Environmental authorities in Colombia say a hippopotamus descended from animals illegally brought to Colombia by the late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar has died in a collision with an SUV near Escobar’s hacienda

The Independent UK

Gangster-themed Nottingham restaurant with 'a bit of everything' opens in Mansfield Road

'I thought I might as well try and make it exciting and a bit unique'

Nottingham Post

Colombian government to spend $3.5 million moving Pablo Escobar’s hippos

The herd was declared an invasive species last year.

Fortune

Removing 70 of Pablo Escobar’s hippos to cost Colombia $3.5m

Animals to be sent overseas in effort to contain growing population that risks upsetting local ecosystem

The Guardian - AU

Colombia's top police chief says he uses exorcism and religious rituals to fight crime

General Henry Sanabria further claimed the infamous cocaine trafficker in Colombia, Pablo Escobar, was brought down through the use of spiritual rituals and exorcisms

Daily Mirror

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Giovanna Fletcher visits Whitley Bay haunt that's a celeb favourite between Theatre Royal shows

Giovanna Fletcher had a trip to the coast during a break in performances of Wish You Were Dead at Newcastle's Theatre Royal

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: global markets gripped by Silicon Valley Bank collapse

Bank shares slide around world amid panic caused by SVB failure as its parent company and two top executives are sued by shareholders. Plus, what’s next for Escobar’s hippos?

The Guardian - US

Colombia floats new strategy for Escobar’s hippos: ship them abroad

Since the drug lord’s imported hippos escaped after his death in 1993, the government has repeatedly failed to tame the booming population

Evening Standard

Colombia to relocate Pablo Escobar’s ‘cocaine hippos’ because they won’t stop breeding

The hippos are descendants of four imported illegally by Pablo Escobar in the 1980s

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Who can house a hippo? Colombia hopes export part of Pablo Escobar's bloat

Dozens of the invasive behemoths, descended from 4 imported by the 1980s drug lord, are thriving in the region around his former ranch. Colombia wants to ship some of them to Mexico and India.

Daily Mirror

Pablo Escobar's hippos to be removed from Colombia as they go out of control

The hippos, which are territorial and weigh up to three tonnes, have been declared a toxic invasive species because they have no natural predator in Colombia and pose a biodiversity risk because their faeces changes the composition of rivers

The Independent UK

Colombia proposes shipping invasive hippos to India, Mexico

Colombia is proposing transferring at least 70 hippopotamuses that live near Pablo Escobar’s former ranch _ descendants of four imported from Africa illegally by the late drug lord in the 1980s – to India and Mexico as part of a plan to control their population

Liverpool Echo

Suspected drug dealers arrested after grandad killed in arson attack

George Redmond was injured trying to escape his home after it was set alight in the early hours of the morning

Liverpool Echo

Downfall of 'Latvian Pablo Escobar' as 'Jimmy Line' drug ring smashed

Detectives have vowed a crackdown on drug dealers in Skelmersdale

Daily Mirror

Inside life of Cocaine Godmother with lust for murder as true story hits our screens

Griselda Blanco, dubbed the Cocaine Godmother, was the queenpin among kingpins in the Colombian Medellin drug cartel of the 70s and 80s. She was a trailblazer for women entrepreneurs the world over

Daily Record

Brit who snorted coke off Pablo Escobar's grave jailed for drug trafficking

Steven Semmens was charged at Swansea Crown Court along with four other cocaine conspirators for their involvement in selling the Class A drug.

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