No offense to the producers of Cocaine Cowboys and of M.I. Yayo, I think each were well done.

But, not done well enough.

As someone who for the past 26 years has been involved with the Miami music scene as a former booking agent,DJ and events promoter, I knew many of the subjects/characters found in these films,personally or indirectly by association.

Now I'm not knocking these films, I think they were well done as I stated above, I just feel the producers didn't really do their research properly,especially in the Cocaine Cowboy series.

On the subject of Willie Falcon & Salvador Magluta these films lack a lot in eye witness and personal accounts from " COMMON " folks and not just stories told by fellow criminals about the subjects in these films.

The films seem to mirror themselves as if the only research done was by going through stacks of public records, court documents, stock footage etc.

I was recently contacted by not one,but two film makers, each are doing a film on the Miami " River Cops " case and while looking at each of their scripts/plots and the reasearch they each had done.

I was disgusted to see that both of these projects were nearly identical,same old shit research done,with nothing but a story written around whatever documents they could find on the Miami River Cop's case.

None of these films seem to mention some of the craziest nightclubs of the past where all these criminal elements would frequent or the people who owned or worked at the clubs who saw tons of shit go down.

Clubs where nearly every week someone was killed at in plain view.

Which brings me to this, with all the " plain view " killings going on back in the cocaine hey days in Miami,wouldnt you think the producers of these films could find (common people)eye witnesses to these events?

As I moonlighted as a DJ and events promoters through out South Florida back in the early 80's, I saw with my own two eyes,shit you would not believe, that would make these films content seem weak in nature.

Sammy's East Side was a small after hours, very dark private club on the 79st Causeway just over the bridge after North Bay Village in Miami Beach.

EVERY SINGLE mobster,hustler and dealer,from the small timers to the big bosses would go to Sammy's nearly every night.

You name it, everything happened at Sammy's, from the Godmother making out with hot chicks, Willie & Sal tipping the Sammy's staff with $100 bills filled with top notch cocaine,to murders,fights while local government officials,judges,police officers etc. would be right along side all of Miami's most shadiest characters,getting fucked up and partying with them.

I should know,I was a DJ there when I was only 15.

Now, the shit I witnessed was just plain crazy, we all lived with the " see no evil,hear no evil,speak no evil " rule back then, we knew nada!

Or at least we acted as if we didnt.

I was a punk ass kid scared off my ass working at Sammy's,but hey,making nearly $1000 a night from tips and getting wired for free as a 15 year old,who could resist?

I experienced and saw a lot back then,but my boy Pete Denis really has a story to tell,starting with his days as a New York Disco DJ to ending up at Menage,a club where the Godmother had a couple of guys throw grenades into,to spinning at Sammie's.

The difference was,Pete got way deep into shit,so deep that one can say he is directly responsible for the conviction or investigations of nearly 60 South Florida corrupted officers,including the cops involved in the Miami River case!

I'll leave ya with this Miami Herald article on the North Bay Village police cases my boy Pete was involved in.

But before I go, if anyone who is looking to film another flick based on the Miami club and dope scene back in the late 70's and 80's,dont do reasearch online,just hit me up!

Nobody knows more about them days than I and my friends do,check out my site at www.305Disco.com

Miami Herald, The (FL)

April 23, 1986

OFFICER'S VOICE HEARD ON TAPE PLAYED IN COURT

Author: AL MESSERSCHMIDT Herald Staff Writer

Edition: FINAL
Section: LOCAL
Page: 3B

One after the other, a state prosecutor played a series of tape recordings of conversations between a one-time disc jockey and a former North Bay Village police officer for a six-member Circuit Court jury Tuesday.

The recordings offered snatches of sentences, laughter, the sound of a police radio.

Most of the tapes were inaudible.

Then, came the voice of former police officer Preston Williams:

"To get rid of it, we can get rid of it, you know, cause I look at it this way -- if you get a ki, if you can get 40 grand for it, you know, you know what I mean, it's found money."

"All I need is one, you know, cause if I can get 40 out of one I'm happy. . . . I ain't a greedy m-----------, I'm a very easy person," Williams said later in the Feb. 22 recording.

Williams is charged with breaking into a Miami home to steal a suitcase that allegedly held five kilos of cocaine in 1982.

Disc jockey Pedro Denis, who became a police informant, testified Tuesday that he told Williams that the cocaine was stashed in the house by Colombian drug dealers. Denis added that he told Williams that the Colombians would not be home the night that Williams broke into the home.

Williams is expected to testify that he was following the orders of Lt. Andrew Mazzarella when the two men took the suitcase from the home.

Mazzarella was acquitted of the drug charges in a separate trial in 1983.

Williams was convicted of the charges in 1982, then won a new trial in Circuit Court Arthur Snyder's court.

Denis sat in the witness chair Tuesday, arms crossed over his chest, and testified that he turned Williams in because he was against drug use.

Working with state investigators, Denis secretly tape recorded the conversations with Williams.

Prosecutor Susan Dechovitz wanted the jurors to read state- prepared transcripts as she played the tapes. She said the transcripts would help the jurors understand who was saying what.

Defense attorney Richard Sharpstein argued that he couldn't understand the tapes and that the transcripts would convince the jurors that the state's interpretation was correct.

While the jurors were out of court, Snyder listened to the tapes. He ruled that the jurors could read only one transcript -- of the Feb. 22 meeting.

Sharpstein said Denis cooperated with state investigators because he had been arrested on cocaine charges. "No -- you understand no. No." said Denis. "You're trying to change my words around."

"Tell us about the 'plenty of drugs' you were doing?" said Sharpstein.

"I was smoking pot and I was snorting cocaine," said Denis. "A couple of hits a day."

"Did you get stoned from those hits?" asked Sharpstein.

"No, did you?" responded Denis.

Twice, Snyder ordered the jurors out of court. The judge warned Denis to limit his answers to Sharpstein's questions.

"Frankly, Mr. Sharpstein is trying to make you out to be a bum," said the judge. "You don't have a right to ask him anything."

In several statements, Denis contradicted the testimony of a former North Bay Village police officer who arrested him on the cocaine charges in 1982.

"This is something I'd like to forget all about," said Denis.

Copyright (c) 1986 The Miami Herald
Record Number: 8602010913

NOTE: Officer Mazzarella got his case dropped,and a couple a years later in New York he was busted for selling 40 kilos of coke to undercover feds.

Above where Pete asks the attorney Sharpstein if he got high on coke is because Mr. Sharpstein was a regular at Sammy's.

Future Miami Commissioner Alberto Hernandez would hang out at Menage getting fucked up.

Crooked Miami judge Alfonso C. Sepe was another visitor to Sammy's.

I have tons of stories to tell.

One last thing,now get this shit!

Sammy's was owned by Samuel Polisar and his son Steve.

Know who Steve Polisar is,today?

Dude owned the most dangerous club in Miami!

Look it up and you'll see how fucked up things really are!