Miami New Times Originally published in the February 12, 1992, issue of New Times and titled “Willy & Sal,” this longform feature covered the arrests of the alleged cocaine cowboys and provides a detailed account of the decade-long chase that led to their apprehension. Willy & Sal, Episode 1: The Rise of Cocaine Cowboys Willy Falcon and Sal Magluta To that end, we're dusting off those old tales and presenting them anew. And reading DeFede’s stories about the case three decades on, it's easy to see why they captivated Spellman and Corben as teens. In fact, DeFede's reportage and DeFede himself are front and center throughout Rakontur's Kings of Miami, because the stories themselves constitute a narrative of the bizarre, only-in-Miami true-crime tale. All told, over the course of the decade, DeFede wrote ten in-depth dispatches about the federal government's dogged pursuit of the pair known around town as "Los Muchachos" or "The Boys" - two Miami Senior High School dropouts who grew up to head what was said to be the most lucrative cocaine empire in South Florida. When it came to what New Times was doing during the '90s, a significant chunk of it was composed of Jim DeFede's coverage of Willy and Sal.
I'd go to the New Times box every week."Īdded Corben of the pair's initial - and ongoing - aspirations as filmmakers: "We wanted to do in nonfiction filmmaking what New Times was doing, what Carl Hiaasen was doing, and what Neil Rogers was doing." When Jim's coverage of Willy and Sal came out, I was in eighth and ninth grade.
#WILLY FALCON ARCHIVE#
The recent Netflix release of Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami, Billy Corben's riveting chronicle of the strange-but-true exploits, excesses, and ultimate downfall of local drug kingpins Augusto Falcon and Salvador Magluta - AKA Willy and Sal - inspired us at New Times to bury our noses in our story archive and inhale deeply of the intoxicating wealth that lies within.Ĭolorful coke-snorting vernacular aside, the 1990s was a heady time to be a New Times reader - or, for that matter, a New Times writer.Īs Corben's Rakontur partner Alfred Spellman said during a roundtable conversation last month, "Billy and I graduated high school in 1996, and this was the era of Miami New Times with a murderer's row of alt-weekly journalists in Miami, like Jim DeFede.
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