Miami Cops Seize Record $24M In Cash During Raid On Home Of Brother-Sister Drug Trafficking Team
Miami-Dade police seized a record-setting $24 million in cash during a raid on the home of a brother-sister drug trafficking team.
Arrested were Luis Hernandez-Gonzalez, 44, and his sister, Salma Hernandez, who worked at the Blossom Experience, an indoor gardening store owned by her brother.
Police say Hernandez-Gonzalez trafficked marijuana out of his business located on the 7200 block of Northwest 54th Street. Hernandez-Gonzalez allegedly had ties to drug dealers trafficking marijuana in Tennessee, according to the Miami Herald.
The Herald reports the rolls of mostly $100 bills were found neatly packed inside 24 orange Home Depot buckets hidden in a secret compartment in the attic.
The secret 6×7 ft room was on the 2nd floor, down a hallway near the bedrooms of Hernandez-Gonzalez’s 2 children. The money room could only be accessed through the attic.
Detectives also found a Tec-9 pistol and heat-sealed bags of cash, each labeled $150K, in the walk-in master bedroom closet.
The judge granted Hernandez-Gonzalez a $4 million cash bail.
“For a man with $20 million in his walls, an elevated bond is clearly necessary,” said Miami-Dade prosecutor Adam Korn at Hernandez-Gonzalez’s bond hearing on Wednesday.
Investigators worked through the night counting the $24 million in cash. The haul is believed to be the largest single cash seizure in Miami-Dade police history.
Police say Hernandez-Gonzalez added the secret attic at the time he built his posh 5-bedroom, 2-story home in a gated Miami Lakes neighborhood.
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