Drug Lord Pablo Escobar's Miami Mansion Searched and Demolished
One of the most significant properties in Miami, Florida is being demolished, according to a report from Associated Press via Fox News Latino. The demolition orders will be for the famed beachfront mansion, formerly owned by late Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
According to the news outlet, the new owners of the property will be holding a search before demolishing it entirely. This is to fully erase all the negative traces from the 1980s when the late Escobar was one of the most known drug smugglers in the U.S.
"I'm very excited to see the house of the devil disappearing right before our eyes," Christian de Berdouare who now owns the property he bought in 2014 said, as quoted by the news agency.
Berdouare, who also owns the Chicken Kitchen fast-food chain, further explained his distaste in being associated with the drug lord. However, he revealed to the Miami Herald that he wanted to really acquire the property because it was "magnificent."
The pink mansion will soon be turned into a modern-style abode, according to the owners who bought Escobar's property at a whopping $9.65 million last year. It was previously priced at $762,500 back in the 1980s.
Meanwhile, the New York Daily News reports that de Berdouare held a search for significant items in the property to find anything that could possibly be connected to the "King of Cocaine" as mentioned by the Associated Press via Fox News Latino.
"It's either money, or it's gold, or it's jewels, or it's arms, or it's drugs, or it's a dead body," de Berdouare said as quoted by the New York Daily News. However, that was all that de Berdouare had to reveal since the discoveries will be featured in a documentary, according to the publication.
Before Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman became one of the biggest Mexican drug lords, it was apparently the late Escobar who was reigning in the illegal drug smuggling business according to the Associated Press via Fox News Latino.
"A lot of people forget what life was like in Miami in the 1980s, when people were literally doing cocaine out in the open in bars and no one wanted go to South Beach at all and there were shootouts in the street," de Berdouare's wife, Jennifer Valoppi, told the publication.
The property of the late drug lord was also reportedly seized back in 1987 before the death of Escobar in a Colombian National Police shootout in 1993. Valoppi adds that the property may be blessed by a Roman Catholic monsignor before kicking off the reconstruction of their new modern home, per the news agency.
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