DEA agents who hunted Pablo Escobar reveal chilling call where he ordered torture while on phone with wife

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2026 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Legal Statement. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by LSEG. Former DEA agent Javier Pena encourages President Donald Trump to continue his efforts to combat cartels on a new episode of 'Hang Out with Sean Hannity.' The DEA agents who hunted down Pablo Escobar are shedding new light on the kingpin's dangerous nature, describing a phone call where the drug lord allegedly ordered a victim's mouth covered during torture so he could finish a romantic call with his wife. Steve Murphy and Javier Peña, who helped topple the Medellín Cartel in the early '90s, joined the "Hang Out with Sean Hannity" podcast to reveal what they know about Escobar and warn President Donald Trump about what that means for the war on drugs today. "We're intercepting his phone and he's telling his wife, you know, that he misses her, he's going to be together with her soon. He loves her," Peña said. "Then in the background, you hear a guy ye