Pablo Escobar's apprentice turned kingpin, 58, who was wanted for drug trafficking and murder, dies in shootout with police after coming out of hiding to spend the night with his beauty queen girlfriend, 26

  • Oscar Pachon, wanted by Colombia's justice system for drug trafficking, kidnapping and murder, was killed in a shootout with authorities on Tuesday
  • The infamous drug boss was with his girlfriend, Scarlett Duque-Arias, when  Anti-terrorism Special Group agents barged inside Pachon's Medellin pad
  • Investigators revealed that both parties were surprised and a gun fight ensued, injuring Pachon, who died at the scene
  • Duque-Arias, a former beauty queen and fitness model, was released and no charges were filed against her  

A wanted drug boss has been shot dead after he was cornered by Colombian law enforcement agents in a dawn shootout after his beauty queen girlfriend was trailed by cops to meet him.

Authorities had been following former beauty queen Scarlett Duque-Arias, 26, over two months and early on Tuesday swooped on the home of her boyfriend criminal gang leader, Oscar Pachon, in Medellin, as she visited him.

Agents with the Anti-Terrorism Special Group barged inside the swanky 21st floor pad of the 58-year-old leader of 'Los Puntillos' in the upscale neighborhood of El Poblado at about 6.30am, sparking a wild gun fight.

Oscar Pachon, leader of 'Los Puntillos', a criminal organization in Colombia that produced and distributed cocaine, was killed in a dawn shootout with a team of law enforcement agents inside his home in Medellin on Tuesday. He is seen above during a previous arrest

Oscar Pachon, leader of 'Los Puntillos', a criminal organization in Colombia that produced and distributed cocaine, was killed in a dawn shootout with a team of law enforcement agents inside his home in Medellin on Tuesday. He is seen above during a previous arrest

Scarlett Duque-Arias was romantically attached to Oscar Pachon. She is seen above in a Facebook photo

Scarlett Duque-Arias was romantically attached to Oscar Pachon. She is seen above in a Facebook photo

Pachon, who was once an apprentice of Pablo Escobar, was wanted for a variety of crimes including drug trafficking, kidnapping and murder.   

When authorities entered the apartment they surprised the couple and bullets flew across the apartment.

'He fired his Glock gun as soon as he saw the uniformed officers,' an investigator with the judicial police told El Tiempo.

El Colombiano reported that Pachon was seriously injured during the early morning gun fight and died before he could be transferred to a hospital.

Duque-Arias, who was dating Pachon for five years, was not injured and won't be charged with any crimes.  

According to the attorney general's office, Pachon settled in Medellin after arriving from the country's Eastern Plains.

He sought refuge from 'La Oficina', a criminal syndicate founded in 1993 by Pablo Escobar to protect the Medellin Cartel. 

In return for the protection, Pachon shared the control of his many of drug routes that transported cocaine from Venezuela and Brazil to the United States and Europe.  

As the leader of 'Los Puntillos', Pachon rose to power after his former associate Daniel 'El Loco' Barrera was apprehended during a raid in Venezuela in 2012. 

Insight Crime, a Latin America and Caribbean organized crime think tank, believes that Pachon was responsible for leading authorities to Barrera's capture so that he could keep a stronghold over the drug trade.

Agents with the Anti-terrorism Special Group barged inside Pachon's 21st floor pad in the upscale neighborhood sector of El Poblado

Agents with the Anti-terrorism Special Group barged inside Pachon's 21st floor pad in the upscale neighborhood sector of El Poblado

The former beauty queen had been dating the wanted Colombian drug boss for five years

The former beauty queen had been dating the wanted Colombian drug boss for five years

Barrera was extradited to the United States and sentenced to 35 years in jail in July 2016.

Colombian authorities jumped on Pachon's trail after the 2013 discovery of a cocaine production laboratory.  He finally was arrested in February 2016 but a judged released him in April 2017. 

At the time of his 2016 apprehension, Pachon told Noticias RCN during a jailhouse interview that the 'government was blind and did not want to see who were the real successors' of Barrera.

'[They need to] look at the person well. Have a good look at my profile,' Pachon said.

'I sleep here quieter than in the house because I have my conscience calm and because I know that this will clear up.'

Escobar's former stable boy and hitman was remained on the Attorney General's target list after he was arrested and freed a second time.

But the Attorney General persisted on trying to nail Pachon and decided to look into some of the irregularities made by the judicial system before Colombian forces ended his cartel reign.

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