Pedro Zelene was a Mexican-American pilot who flew charter flights in a helicopter. He had dark hair. In 1948, he was an accomplice to Pear-Shape's robbery of the wealthy Mary Waldo, though not to her murder. A year later, when Pear-Shape was being hunted by the police and had grown tired of Jim Pistol's strenuous health regimen, he blackmailed Pedro into picking him up for a getaway. Pear-Shape wanted to escape to the West Coast, but Pedro warned him the helicopter didn't even have enough gas to fly to the county line.