Cocaine Cowboy Mickey Munday reportedly got $2.5 million per trip to fly the powdery substance into the U.S. While most of the "Cocaine Cowboys" have been behind bars for decades, one of the group's members "He is the last of the Cocaine Cowboys," Barry Golden, a senior investigator with the U.S. Now a whole new sheriff is in town and its called heroin. As the paramedics raced to her aid, they found fresh vomit all over her and had to give her two shots of narcan to bring her back.Now, you might think more of this would be the norm, right? "Really, 'Cocaine Cowboys' were associated with the Colombians" at first, he said, but the designation soon expanded to other groups as the decade progressed. But, Corben added, "Sal kept meticulous accounting" that led prosecutors to discover they'd paid off at least three witnesses.
APA bulldozer begins demolition of the waterfront mansion formerly owned by Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, Tuesday, January 19, 2016, in Miami Beach, Florida.A At roughly 6,500 square feet, the four-bedroom mansion built in 1948 would have been modest for the "King of Cocaine," who was known for garish homes and lavish spending.
Cocaine ruled the roost in Miami for decades until recently. At his sentencing, A federal judge Magluta went to trial in 2003 and got 205 years — later reduced to 195 years — behind bars.
The pair were indicted once again in 1999 for money laundering and Willy Falcon in 2003 pleaded guilty to a money laundering charge — handing over $1 million in cash and taking a 20-year sentence. While Tabby Falcon got away, Willy and Magluta were apprehended that year. While Munday says he didn't get into shootouts, many others did. It stayed underground and popular with the old school “kats” from the 1970s and never really made it to the mainstream until the pill epidemic blew through South Florida much like Hurricane Andrew leaving just as much devastation.Heroin addicts are now overdosing in record numbers in Miami-Dade County.
And more specifically, 190 of the 213 white victims were white males.
The documentary examines how a sleepy retirement city that attracted the elderly and tourists became, as Time magazine described it in 1981, Paradise Lost. "The whole world of boat racing and drug smuggling was a very blurry line," said Corben, who's produced two documentaries on other members of the Cocaine Cowboys. When the Falcon brothers and partner Salvador (Sal) Magluta — all of Cuban heritage — were indicted 26 years ago, prosecutors alleged they smuggled about 75 tons of cocaine into the United States between 1978 and 1991. Some cowboys fought for either of the two top drug lords Griselda Blanco and Paco "Papo" Mejia. The "Cocaine Cowboys" — named for the violence associated with them — helped usher cocaine into south Florida during the 1980s. A faction of the group, sometimes referred to as "The Company," had a reputation for lavish living and heavy spending — even shelling out for high-powered legal teams and witness bribes after their arrests. "It was high-adrenaline down there in South Florida," he said. Miami was a hotbed for cocaine and other drug smuggling during the 1980s — inspiring the hit TV show "Miami Vice." Miami was a hotbed for cocaine and other drug smuggling during the 1980s — inspiring the hit TV show "Miami Vice." Magluta and the Falcons were believed to have run their high-speed boats from Miami to the Bahamas, where Colombian drug lords flew in massive amounts of cocaine. "It's like the Cuban 'Godfather,'" said Corben, whose latest film, "Cocaine Cowboys: Los Muchachos," is due out next year.
We have all seen episodes of Miami Vice where Crockett and Tubbs fight to keep kilo after kilo of cocaine off the streets of Miami.I’m sure most of us have seen the documentary “Cocaine Cowboys” that tells the story of how the Colombian cartels took over the streets of Miami for years pumping tons of cocaine into the Magic City’s streets.The city of Miami definitely doesn’t like to admit it, but the beautiful new skyline in downtown was basically built off the cocaine trade of the 1980s.
"The government alleged all of these big numbers, but nobody ever saw that.
Willy and Magluta were classmates at Miami High School, where both eventually dropped out, Corben said. They hired an all-star legal team, and were acquitted in 1996 on the drug charges. Between legal defense and juror bribes, Willy Falcon and Magluta paid out about $24 million, according to Corben. It is people from OUTSIDE the neighborhoods coming in to these low-income neighborhoods to purchase the heroin and not making it out.These numbers may shock you, but out of the 250 heroin overdoses in Miami Dade last year, 213 of them were white victims from outside neighborhoods or areas. Along with Tabby, they had an offshore powerboat racing team.
"I probably came out of that with PTSD.