You Too, Can Own A Drug Lord's Ferrari

WLRN Public Media | By Caitie Switalski

Published July 6, 2016 at 9:48 PM EDT

A Ferrari Enzo is just one of the cars up for auction - the highest bid is 1.9 million for it.

Ever wonder what happens to the cars of drug lords when they go off to prison? They get sold off and the government keeps the money.

Now the cars are being auctioned by the federal government at Marlins Park.

Six of the 10 cars for auction once belonged to drug kingpin Alvaro Lopez Tardon, imprisoned for 150 years in Miami in 2014 for among other things, laundering $14 million in local real estate.

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Amos RojasJr., the U.S. Marshal for the southern district of Florida, told the Miami Herald that, among the bids includes 1.9 million dollars for a FerrariEnzo.

Bidders had to cough up 25 thousand dollars to enter the auction, which ends online at 11 a.m. Thursday.

None of the bidders — 75 of them had bid in excess of $3.5 million by Wednesday afternoon — were at Marlins Park. And their names were not disclosed, although the U.S. Marshal Service does background check on the bidders.

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