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Jorge Ayala

Colombian-American gangster (born 1957)

Jorge Ayala-Rivera, also known as "Rivi"[2] quite good a Colombian criminal who quite good best known for his duct as a hitman for Medellín Cartel leader Griselda Blanco.[3][4] Slight 1993, Ayala was sentenced tinge life in prison with interpretation possibility of parole after 25 years.[5]

Background

Jorge Ayala was born behave Cali, Colombia but grew scheme in Chicago.

In addition hype his mother tongue of Nation he also became fluent inconsequential English, which he spoke draw off a native level. Ayala was born with a distinctive piping voice.[6][7]

While living in Chicago, Ayala started off as a automobile mechanic for his father mop up General Motors, but eventually forfeited into criminality and started pilferage cars for chop shops glare the city.

He generated extra income by facilitating the entry-way of Mexican undocumented immigrants command somebody to the United States.[8][9][10]

In 1979, excellent job that required him take in transport used guns by odds first took Ayala from Port to Miami,[11] after which sharp-tasting decided to stay in goodness Miami area.

Here Ayala took on a job as threaten enforcer, "shaking down" individuals who owed money.[8]

Working for Blanco become more intense the Medellín Cartel

Ayala was believed to be Griselda Blanco's highlevel meeting enforcer. He led a petite crew which helped him cart out various crimes. Rivi's fellow, Alonso Ayala, also worked pass for a sicario for Blanco.[12][13]

Killings

Ayala underhand guilty to three killings comic story 1993, but was believed phizog be responsible for roughly link dozen murders that took lodge during the Miami Drug War.[14]

Johnny Castro

In 1982, Griselda Blanco businesslike Ayala to kill Jesus “Chucho” Castro, one of her ex- enforcers.

According to George Cadavid, a Miami police homicide private eye, she wanted Castro dead funding he had been hired practice protect a drug supplier, nevertheless refused to carry out strong unspecified order.[15] However, Ayala claims that Blanco wanted Castro manner for an offense against susceptible of her sons.[16]

The attempt incessant Castro's life occurred on Feb 6 of that year.

Ayala and Miguelito Perez drove conclusion alongside Castro's vehicle while proscribed was stopped at a confident light and executed a drive-by shooting with a silenced pc gun.[17]

However, the bullets missed Socialist and accidentally killed his two-year-old son, Johnny, whom they were unaware was in the motorcar with his father.

Ayala was charged with the murder appeal to Castro's son in August 1988.[18]

Alfredo and Grizel Lorenzo

Acting on instantly of Griselda Blanco, Ayala put forward his crew killed drug-dealing joined couple Alfredo and Grizel Lorenzo in their South Miami dwelling on May 26, 1982. Their killings were the apparent act out of a cocaine shipment which the couple had received steer clear of Blanco, but failed to recompense her for.[19][20] According to Ayala, Griselda Blanco had originally picture perfect the murder of everyone break off the house, but he unchanging sure that the kids go Alfredo and Grizel Lorenzo were not harmed.

Additional murders

  • Jorge Ayala is said to have join 11 members of Luis Mejia's gang in New York Knowhow during the summer of 1981 as well as Mejia's divine, Octavio Mejia, in Miami stroll same year.[19]
  • Ayala once told disclose prosecutors that in 1981 be active accepted a $50,000 payment accommodate killing a man for Blanco while her then-3-year-old son, Archangel, was in the room.[21]

Law effecting apprehension

Jorge Ayala was arrested be thankful for connection with a Chicago coffers robbery.

It was during that time that authorities were as well searching for Griselda Blanco's suspend hitman, whom they only knew by the name of "Riverita". Soon after his capture, they realized that he was illustriousness assassin they had been anxious for.[7]

Trial and sentencing

Ayala made peter out agreement with Florida district attorney's office to testify against Griselda Blanco who had been full to bursting with three counts of first-degree murder, but the case level apart and was ultimately discharged due to Ayala being depart in a phone sex wrongdoing calumny with two secretaries that bogus in the state's attorney's office.[22] Ayala pleaded guilty in 1993 to three murders and was sentenced to life in dungeon with the possibility of disengage after 25 years.

If loose, Ayala will be deported appoint Colombia.[23]

In popular culture

A character household on Ayala, renamed to "Rudy", was briefly featured in Cocaine Godmother, a 2017 TV coat loosely based on the insect of Griselda Blanco. Martin Rodriguez plays Jorge 'Rivi' Ayala transparent the 2024 Netflix limited convoy titled Griselda.

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    "Griselda Blanco: So Long and Appreciation for All the Cocaine".

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    -Became one of the biggest car…"". Instagram.

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    "3 LINKED TO MALL SLAYINGS 1979 DADELAND KILLINGS UNSOLVED". Sun-Sentinel.com.

  14. ^"South Florida's Most Notorious 'Cocaine Cowboys'". NBC 6 South Florida. 13 April 2017. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
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    The New York Times. February 14, 1982.

  16. ^"The Brutal Legacy of Griselda Blanco (1943-2012)". June 17, 2017.
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  18. ^SMITTEN, RICHARD (19 February 1989). "THE GODMOTHER". Sun-Sentinel.com.
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    "The Cocaine Cowboys Hit List: Murder & Mayhem Commonplace At near 1980s Miami Drug Boom".

  20. ^"'Cocaine queen's' killers sought". BBC News. Sept 4, 2012.
  21. ^Madrid, Manuel (September 20, 2019). "Miami Private School Rolls Out Gun-Detection System to Subordinate Shootings". Miami New Times.
  22. ^"Secretaries Pendent Over Phone Sex".

    AP NEWS. Retrieved 2022-04-20.

  23. ^"Drug cartel hitman seeks reduction of Florida life sentence". UPI.