{"id":184059,"date":"2026-03-09T12:17:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/184059\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T12:17:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:17:19","slug":"cocaine-cowboys-verdict-that-stunned-miami-in-1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/184059\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Cocaine Cowboys:\u2019 Verdict that stunned Miami in 1996"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 9, 2026 at 7:54 AM<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Cocaine Cowboys:\u2019 Verdict that stunned Miami in 1996  It was the verdict that stunned Miami in 1996. \u201cCocaine Cowboys\u201d Willie Falcon and Sal Magluta were acquitted at the height of the drug wars. But the feds weren\u2019t finished.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It was the verdict that stunned Miami in 1996. \u201cCocaine Cowboys\u201d Willie Falcon and Sal Magluta were acquitted at the height of the drug wars. But the feds weren\u2019t finished. RICO charges and re-trials followed, leading to prison sentences stretching decades. The case exposed jury tampering, corruption and just how deep the cocaine trade ran in the 305.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 9, 2026 at 7:54 AM \u2018Cocaine Cowboys:\u2019 Verdict that stunned Miami in 1996 It was the verdict&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-184059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}