After the documentary Cocaine Cowboys and its sequel, Hustlin' With the Godmother, turned Blanco into a hip-hop-culture icon and renewed interest in her, Michael and his mother sold the rights to their life stories to the production company First Born Films.
But according to DEA agents and Sunrise vice cops, Michael was following in mom's footsteps.
On May 12, he was charged with trying to buy five kilos from an undercover detective using $10,000 in cash, a motorcycle, and a diamond necklace and pendant inscribed with the phrase Kill All Rats. The arrest affidavit alleges Michael arranged for a business associate to make the exchange at a Sunrise warehouse while he and a confidential informant working with the cops waited for the transaction to be completed in a Miami Beach Dunkin' Donuts.
The DEA and Sunrise PD also claim to have audio recordings of Michael and the snitch discussing the transaction before it occurred.
Michael pleaded not guilty to both counts and is awaiting trial. A status conference on his case has been scheduled for October 11. At the time I wrote the article, Michael declined to comment under the advice of his lawyer Nathan Diamond, who represented his mother when she was charged with three homicides in Miami-Dade in 1994.
