"Over the years people came out of the woodwork, they were released from prison or got out of the witness protection program and we began to kind of bank interviews and essentially build an archive of interviews of people involved in this over the course of many years, then we finally had enough material for the documentary."Ĭocaine Cowboys: Kings of Miami features a range of interviews with former drug dealers and smugglers who worked alongside Willy and Sal, their loved ones, members of their legal defense team, prosecutors, and the police who chased them for years to tell the incredible true story of one of the largest drug trafficking cases in U.S. "The wounds were too fresh and people weren't willing to go on camera to discuss it" he said. Read more All You Need to Know About Willy Falcon and Sal Magluta Whereabouts TodayĬorben explained the numerous factors behind the delay in telling Willy and Sal's story. So we pursued it but could not nail it down." We followed the case when we were in middle school, when we were in high school, when we were in college here at the University of Miami. At the time when we were pulling up in Miami it was the biggest drug-trafficking case in history. "Over 15 years ago, before the first Cocaine Cowboys documentary came out the story of Will and Sal, "Los Muchachos," was the one that we were pursuing. "This might be the fourth title in the franchise, but it's the first story we wanted to tell", Cocaine Cowboys director Billy Corben told Newsweek.
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Now, fans of the series can sit through six episodes of the latest outing, which traces the rise and fall of high-school best friends, Augusto 'Willy' Falcon and Salvador 'Sal' Magluta. The first installment, titled Cocaine Cowboys, premiered in 2006 followed by Cocaine Cowboys 2 in 20's Cocaine Cowboys: Reloaded. Later in 2002, they were sentenced with a dozen charges, including conspiracy to obstruct justice by bribing jurors, paying witnesses to lie and murdering three witnesses, corruption, and the laundering of drug profits.ĭuring the trial, Willy took a plea deal and was sentenced to 20 years in prison, whereas Sal received a life sentence.Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami is the fourth installment, but the first series, in the Cocaine Cowboys franchise. Janet Street-Porter red-faced as Loose Women left in hysterics at 'wardrobe malfunction'.
#Willie falcon trial
In 1996 they were both sent to trial but were acquitted, despite a mountain of evidence to suspect otherwise.Ī few years later in 1999, after an investigation into their finances, it revealed that the jury foreman, several witnesses, and jurors had accepted bribes to acquit both Willy and Sal during the trial. Over two decades of the pair causing chaos across America, involving drug crimes, suspected murders as well as being on the run from the police, they were seen as “untouchable”. They were found to be trafficking 75,000 tons of cocaine which became the largest drug case in history.
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