On Monday, workers razing the acreage at 5860 N. Bay Road begin a metal safe.
“This is real. It’s still locked. It’s very, actual heavy. We can’t accept it — now Pablito is my best friend,” joked Christian de Berdouare, architect of the fast-food alternation Chicken Kitchen, who owns the acreage with his wife, television announcer Jennifer Valoppi.
The safe was begin at about 11 a.m. if Miguel Mato, who was operating an excavator, agape down the endure walls on the 7,336-square-foot home, which sits on a 33,000-square-foot lot overlooking Biscayne Bay.
“We had larboard one of the walls because they had to blur a arena for the documentary … if I started to beating it down, a section of bits hit the foundation, the attic sunk and I saw it,” Mato said. “It was something gray. I affective it with the excavator’s claw, accomplished it was a safe and started to bawl to acquaint them.”
Valoppi is filming a documentary about the abode and its affiliation to Escobar, who lived in South Florida in the 1980s. Authorities accept the acreage was acclimated as a cover for Escobar’s henchmen and to unload bags of cocaine. Escobar was attempt and dead by badge in 1993 in Colombia.
The safe was hidden below the access of what had been a ample blush abode consisting of four bedrooms, a pool, six bathrooms and a garage. The safe is about two anxiety by two anxiety and weighs amid 600 and 700 pounds, according to Mato.
De Berdouare said the safe is still locked, and its capacity — if any — are unknown.
“I anticipate that it has gold or diamonds,” he said. “Who knows?”
It is able-bodied accepted that the above bang-up of the Medellin Cartel had accumulated such an immense affluence that he hid allotment of his profits in abstruse compartments, in the walls of his house, and even active them in the floor.
Escobar bought the abode in March 1980 for $762,500, according to Miami-Dade County accessible records. His name appears on the appellation of the abode and in the paperwork appointment the acreage to the accepted owners.
In 1987, U.S. authorities confiscated the property, forth with $20 actor in backdrop the Colombian biologic banker endemic beyond Florida.
Attorney Roger Schindler bought the home from the U.S. government in 1990 for $915,000. In 2014, de Berdouare acquired the abode for $9.65 million. He affairs to body a added avant-garde abode in its place.
De Berdouare and Valoppi had been ahead notified by workers about addition safe that was begin hidden beneath a slab of marble floor. But they said that one was baseborn in the endure 30 days, and badge are investigating the disappearance.
Last Tuesday, a white or cream-colored package, about one bottom continued and captivated in artificial with metal seals on the ends, was aswell found. Forensic tests by Miami Beach badge bent it did not accommodate drugs.
The safe begin on Monday will be placed in a coffer vault, breadth it will break until the acreage owners adjudge to alleviate it. They plan to accessible it afterwards they accomplishment Valoppi’s documentary on the history of the mansion.
For the moment, the acreage will be beneath 24-hour aegis until all bits is removed.
David Spencer, a abundance hunter from Kellyco Metal Detectors, said the seek for admired altar will abide for addition two weeks.
“We will acknowledgment if they bright out the charcoal of the house,” Spencer said. “We will seek the absolute area.”
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