https://assets-natgeotv.fnghub.com/Shows/88915.jpg
  • DRUG LORDS: THE TAKEDOWN

DESCRIPTION

Hair-raising first-hand accounts of how the biggest and deadliest drug lords on earth were hunted down and taken out, as told by special agents, investigators and cartel insiders. From the slick, Colombian cocaine CEO “Chupeta”, to the murderous Canadian Hell’s Angel “Mom Boucher”, the series gives an insider’s view of the greatest narco investigations of all time.

EPISODE GUIDE

  • Drug Lords: The Takedown: The Animal
    Colombia’s notorious cocaine kingpin Otoniel is the drug lord who scares all other drug lords. He’s an uneducated peasant, who rules the isolated jungles of north-eastern Colombia using money, witchcraft, and savage violence. When the authorities come after him, Otoniel doesn’t flee, he retreats into the dark heart of his empire, setting off the biggest military manhunt in Colombian history.
  • Drug Lords: The Takedown: Invisible Cartel
    The Narco kings are dead. Escobar is gone. His arch-rivals in the powerful Cali cartel are now history. It’s a free-for-all. Thousands of wannabe drug bosses are fighting each other for the spoils of the narco empire. This is the gripping story of the hunt for an invisible enemy, that begins with a street level money fraud investigation, and ends with the takedown of Colombia’s biggest cartel.
  • Drug Lords: The Takedown: Head of the Snake
    In 1992, New York City is struggling to stem a flood of heroin flowing into the city from South East Asia. On a street corner in the Bronx, the FBI receives a tip off that starts an epic investigation into one of the networks responsible. Six years later in Hong Kong they finally take down the king pin, an unassuming Canadian called Tse Chi Lop, one of the biggest heroin traffickers of the 1990s.
  • Drug Lords: The Takedown: Target One
    Liverpool’s Curtis Warren was a drug trafficking prodigy, whose cunning and flair made him a uniquely challenging opponent for UK law enforcement. With his own intelligence operation and network of contacts, among them Latin American diplomats and senior British police officers, Curtis Warren evaded capture for years, until one mistake brought him and his international drugs empire to an end.
  • Drug Lords: The Takedown: Titan
  • Drug Lords: The Takedown: Cocaine Ceo
    Drug kingpin ‘Chupeta’ runs a billion dollar cocaine empire like a Fortune 500 company. Rising up to eventually lead the infamous North Valley Cartel, Chupeta stashes nearly one hundred million dollars in cash and gold in the floors and walls of houses across Colombia. On the run and desperate, can plastic surgery and an ever-changing face, keep him one step ahead of international law enforcement?
  • Drug Lords: The Takedown: Cocaine Guerillas
    A maverick group of DEA agents uncovers the huge scale of guerrilla group, the FARC’s involvement in narcotics, then teams up with crusading attorneys from New York’s Southern District, to pull off the single biggest indictment in US History. In a thrilling finale, they snare the FARC leader to free American and Colombian hostages incarcerated for 5 long years.
  • Drug Lords: The Takedown: Hell's Cartel
    The incredible story of how one Hells Angels leader took over the cocaine trade in Montreal and declared war on the state. Maurice “Mom” Boucher rose to the top of organised crime in Canada and seemed untouchable until he was finally taken down by informants from within his own organisation working alongside special police taskforce, ‘The Wolverines’.
  • Drug Lords: The Takedown: Made in America
    Brought up in Laredo on the Texas-Mexican border, American-born Edgar Valdez-Villareal, aka La Barbie, shows early promise as a high school football player. But the lure of easy money leads him south across the border – deep into the violence of the cocaine trade. The murderous La Barbie eventually becomes the only American ever to rise to the top of his own Mexican drug cartel.
  • Drug Lords: The Takedown: The Madman
    No name, no photo, no fingerprints, this drug lord was the ultimate ghost. All law enforcement knew about him was his nickname, “The Crazy One”.
ADVERTISEMENT

PHOTOS