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Cocaine 'Godmother' Released From Prison
MIAMI - A 61-year-old woman known as "The Godmother" whom police said ran a ruthless cocaine empire in the 1980s was released from prison and set to be deported to Colombia.



Griselda Blanco was in custody of the U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Sunday as U.S. and Colombian officials arranged her travel, bureau spokeswoman Barbara Gonzalez said. Gonzalez said she could not comment on when Blanco would be deported, citing security procedures.


Blanco was turned over to federal immigration officials Wednesday by Florida corrections officers.


Blanco had been serving three concurrent 20-year sentences after pleading no contest in 1998 to second-degree murder charges. Authorities said Blanco arranged three contract killings in 1982 that took the lives of toddler Johnny Castro, 2, and drug dealers Alfredo and Grizel Lorenzo.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=816&ncid=816&e=3&u=/ap/20040608/ap_on_re_us/godmother_release
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