Latest from Florida - $24 million found in the walls

[malaise]

So cops raided a home in a very upscale neighborhood in Dade County only to discover 24million dollars in buckets in the walls.

http://www.local10.com/news/miami-dade-drug-bust-yields-24-million-in-cash
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A raid of the home of a suspected Miami-Dade drug trafficker turned up a whopping $24 million in cash, all sealed in buckets.

Tuesday's bust also turned up several packages of steroids and a high-powered automatic weapon.

Based on information from the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Miami-Dade Police Narcotics Bureau raided the Miami Lakes home of Luis Hernandez-Gonzalez and Salma Hernandez.

During the raid, authorities found the buckets concealed within the walls of the home. The money was grouped in bundles of $100 bills.

Hernandez-Gonzalez, 44, is the owner of Blossom Experience, a Miami store that specializes in equipment to facilitate indoor gardening.
Hernandez-Gonzalez was being investigated as part of a group trafficking marijuana out of Tennessee. The investigation includes wiretaps of Hernandez-Gonzalez sharing tips with an unnamed person on how to properly care for marijuana plants.

[rug]

1. pfft, "buckets".

[scscholar]

2. "indoor gardening," in other words facilitating crimes!

Cops could just look at receipts for grow lights and find more criminals than they could handle.

[metroins]

3. Trafficking Marijuana

From Tennessee.

Useless drug raid....and I really dislike Marijuana.

[Scurrilous]

4. LOL

That's where I live! So close...

[malaise]

6. LOL is right - that is serious money

Made me think of that hilarious movie - Saving Grace

[Scurrilous]

9. It's the largest cash seizure in Miami-Dade Police Department history.

With all the history in this town, that's quite an achievement.

[malaise]

11. I was shocked when I saw that

on the news - some folks never have enough

[pinboy3niner]

5. That's weird. Florida Man usually hides the loot in his stuffed alligator.

[malaise]

7. Too much loot this time :-)

You know people are really greedy - at what point to you stop and say I have enough????

[Tommy_Carcetti]

8. There's always money in the banana stand, Michael. Nt

[malaise]

10. How much clearer can I say it

[Baitball Blogger]

12. "upscale neighborhood"

Well, at least they're finally looking in the right places.

[malaise]

13. Based on info from DEA - MDP were't going there just so

Based on information from the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Miami-Dade Police Narcotics Bureau raided the Miami Lakes home of Luis Hernandez-Gonzalez and Salma Hernandez.

[Baitball Blogger]

14. Miami Lakes?!

I was in the area last week to help work on a house. No joke, three cop cars drove in and went in next door. One of them came out to ask me what I was doing there, which I thought was pretty standard operation since there were painters working on the same house. But, I wouldn't have referred to the place as upscale.

[Javaman]

15. isn't money from drub busts, allowed to be kept by the police dept?

I wonder how many high powered military grade weapons and tanks this money will buy them?