NYC cop helps bring
down Colombian drug lord




June 18, 2008

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NYC cop helps bring
down Colombian drug lord

NYC cop helps bring <br>down Colombian drug lord NEW YORK — For two decades Diego Murillo was among Colombia's most feared and untouchable drug lords, accused of hundreds of murders as an enforcer for the cocaine cartels and leader of a right-wing paramilitary group.

Now, against all odds, the man known in Colombia as Don Berna is in prison after pleading guilty in Manhattan to drug trafficking charges, brought down by a U.S. probe that began with a New York City cop.

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