'Cocaine cowboy' who hid for 26 years pleads guilty
Source: Associated Press
Curt Anderson, Ap Legal Affairs Writer
Updated 11:19 am, Thursday, February 1, 2018
MIAMI (AP) — After 26 years as a fugitive, a man investigators called the last of the "Miami Vice" era's "cocaine cowboys" pleaded guilty Thursday to a drug charge, closing a notorious chapter in the city's colorful criminal history.
Gustavo Falcon, who was finally caught while biking through a quiet Florida suburb, pleaded guilty to a single cocaine distribution conspiracy charge. The 56-year-old Falcon could get a prison sentence of no more than 14 years if U.S. District Judge Federico Moreno agrees to the plea deal. The maximum sentence for the charge is 20 years.
"It's always a guess what a judge is going to do, including this one," Moreno said at a hearing in Miami. "There's no guarantee what I'm going to do."
Falcon, also known as "Taby," vanished in 1991 when he was indicted along with his older brother Augusto "Willie" Falcon, Salvador "Sal" Magluta and others. Prosecutors said the gang smuggled some 75 tons (68,000 kilograms) of cocaine into the U.S. and made some $2 billion in the hyper-violent 1980s.
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