Los Priscos

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Los Priscos were a criminal group affiliated with the

The group is named after the four Prisco Lopera brothers: Armando Alberto, Eneas, Jose Rodolfo and David Ricardo.[2] There was a fifth brother, Conrado Antonio, a doctor. Conrado was well respected in the medical community, but he was the personal physician to Pablo Escobar.^[3] Conrado is thought to have been kidnapped and murdered on the orders of Pablo Escobar^[4] in Cocorná, in eastern Antioquia. Another doctor, Edgar de Jesus Botero Prisco, a first cousin to the brothers, was also killed.

The Priscos were involved in murder and attacks that the head of the

This criminal group was dismantled on January 22, 1991, when David Ricardo Prisco, head of the organization, died on the same day as his brother Armando, in two separate operations developed by the National Police of Colombia in Medellin and Rionegro respectively.

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