Past of 'cocaine cowboys' pilot may come back to haunt him
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Curt Anderson, Ap Legal Affairs Writer Updated 12:38 pm, Friday, January 5, 2018
Photo: Alan Diaz, AP
In this Aug. 11, 2016 photo, Mickey Munday talks to a reporter in Love Park in North Miami, Fla. Federal prosecutors want to use the past of Munday, a pilot from Miami's "cocaine cowboys" era against him during an upcoming trial on charges of participating in an auto fraud ring. Court documents filed ahead of a Friday, Jan. 5, 2018, hearing claim Munday has openly bragged about his past in interviews, social media posts and in the documentary "Cocaine Cowboys."
MIAMI (AP) — The colorful past of a pilot who has long bragged about flying loads of drugs for Colombian cartels during Miami's "cocaine cowboys" era in the 1980s may come back to haunt him in an auto fraud case.
A federal judge agreed Friday to let prosecutors use as evidence much of Mickey Munday's open bragging about his past in media interviews, social media posts and in the 2006 documentary "Cocaine Cowboys." But U.S. District Judge Robert Scola ruled that most direct drug references can't be introduced.
"I'm trying to minimize the term 'cocaine cowboy' being used," Scola said at a hearing. "It's very prejudicial."
What Scola will allow in the auto fraud trial, which starts Tuesday, are references Munday frequently made about his prowess as a pilot, driver and boat captain. Prosecutors say it's relevant because Munday's alleged role in the auto fraud ring was transportation, similar to his 1980s work for Pablo Escobar's Medellin cartel and later the Cali cartel.
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