The Bus Driver: Britain's Cocaine King
2025– · discovery+ · 49 min · 1 season
S01E02 · The Cat and the Mouse
Sun, 10 Aug, 10:00 pm
Detectives launch a multi-million-pound operation to bring Ruiz Henao down. London bus driver Jesus Ruiz Henao becomes the UK's biggest cocaine dealer, making millions weekly. But police launch a multi-million-pound operation to bring him and his organisation down. Henao thinks he's untouchable, but pride comes before a fall.
About
Bus-driver-turned-Cocaine-King. Jesus Ruiz Henao flooded '90s Britain with cocaine, building a billion-pound empire. It took police five years to convict him, in what would become the largest surveillance operation of its kind.
Episodes
- E01
Most Unusual Drug Trafficker
Sun, 10 Aug· 47 minFrom cartel roots to UK Kingpin, one man's rise in the cocaine trade. Jesus Ruiz Henao escapes cartel violence in Colombia. He becomes a London bus driver, but spotting a gap in the market, builds the UK's biggest cocaine trafficking empire. But the police are closing in.
- E02
The Cat and the Mouse
Sun, 10 Aug· 51 minDetectives launch a multi-million-pound operation to bring Ruiz Henao down. London bus driver Jesus Ruiz Henao becomes the UK's biggest cocaine dealer, making millions weekly. But police launch a multi-million-pound operation to bring him and his organisation down. Henao thinks he's untouchable, but pride comes before a fall.
