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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. He was murdered on February ...
On February 22, 1986, Barry Seal, a former Medellín dealer living in witness protection in Louisiana, [4] was fatally shot by an unknown person before he was supposed to testify against Pablo Escobar, the leader of the Medellín Cartel, and Jorge Ochoa—the latter of whom was detained in Spain. On July 22, 1986, a U.S. federal grand jury ...
He was indicted by the US government for the first time in 1984, and was allegedly involved in the February 19, 1986 murder of Barry Seal, an informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. [2] In 1987, he and his brothers were included in the Forbes list of billionaires, and remained on the list until 1992. [1]
One man, Barry George, was found guilty of the murder in 2001, but he had his conviction quashed as unsafe by the Court of Appeal in 2007, and was found not guilty, after a retrial, in 2008.
In 1985, the DEA, knowing about Barry Seal ties with both the Medellin Cartel, made the pilot take pictures of the cartel's landing strips in Nicaragua. The DEA prior investigation appointed that the cartel had the protection from the FSLN , the Sandinist party, to use Nicaragua as a "warehouse" for Matta-Ballesteros' logistic operation for ...
A Navy SEAL who was acquitted of murder by a military jury in July has filed a lawsuit against two defense lawyers and a nonprofit legal defense group — who he had parted ways with on the high ...
Three years after the original suspect in a nearly 40-year-old double murder was exonerated based on DNA evidence and freed from prison after 20 years, a Georgia man has been arrested and charged ...
It was during this time that Mermelstein was offered $1 million to kidnap Seal and $500,000 to kill him. Mermelstein—who spent just two years and 21 days in jail and received a $250,000 bonus for cooperating with the government on one drug case—acknowledged on the stand that he helped plan the contract murder of Seal in Louisiana. [8]