Pedro Avilés Pérez, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Mexican drug lord
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Place of Birth: Badiraguato, Sinaloa, Mexico
About Pedro Avilés Pérez
- Pedro Avilés Pérez, also known as "El León de la Sierra" (English: "The Mountain Lion"), was a Mexican drug lord in the state of Sinaloa in the late 1960s.
- He is considered to be the first generation of major Mexican drug smugglers of marijuana.
- He was also the first known drug lord to use an aircraft to smuggle drugs to the United States.Second-generation Sinaloan traffickers such as Rafael Caro Quintero and Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo would claim they learned all they knew about drug trafficking while serving in the Avilés organization.
- Killed in a shootout with the Federal Police in September 1978, it is believed Avilés was set up by Fonseca Carrillo, the cartel's treasurer.
- Caro Quintero, Aviles' foreman in Chihuahua, began acquiring marijuana and poppy plantations.
- Corruption of state officials was brokered by Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, an emerging capo who had spent time in Sinaloa working as a Sinaloan State Police trooper and serving as bodyguard to Leopoldo Sánchez Celis, governor of Sinaloa.
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