Word: hideout
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Dates: during 1993-1993
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Billionaire cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar was killed in a rooftop shoot-out with soldiers and police in Medellin, Colombia. Police found his hideout by tracing a phone call he made to his wife and two children the day after his birthday. The death of Escobar is not expected to reduce the flow of cocaine to the U.S., since his influence on the drug trade significantly diminished during his 16 months as a fugitive...
...team surrounded the hideout on Spring Street and captured the escapees when they attempted to sneak out from the back door. The hideout was located right across the street from the Middlesex County courthouse...
Police later found materials in the hideout that indicate the two men may have been planning a bank robbery, according to Cambridge Police Det. Frank Pasquarello...
Inside the hideout were a loaded .45 automatic handgun, a .32 revolver, plastic masks, wigs and fake mustaches and beard, burglary devices, ski hats, latex gloves and "a scanner to monitor police transmission and a book to help decode them," according to the Globe report...
Pasquarello said the work of the special response team was vital to the success of the police operation at the hideout...