There was an auction at Marlins Park on Wednesday. The items on the block weren’t high-priced baseball players but the finely tuned, spectacularly expensive automotive fleet of a notorious Miami drug kingpin.
By Wednesday morning, a shiny black 2006 Ferrari Enzo was likely on its way out of town, having already received a bid of more than $1.9 million. And the number was climbing.
A sparkling black Bugatti Veyron that can rocket to more than 250 miles per hour already was fetching more than $900,000 with a day to go before the auction closed.
“This is definitely the highest we’ve ever had bid for one particular asset,” Joshua Scully of Apple Auctioneering said of the popular sleek black Ferrari, which had received 105 bids — with the top bid almost doubling its asking price.
The iconic sportscars have a sordid past. Six of the 10 on the auction block had at one time belonged to drug kingpin Alvaro López Tardón, whose South America-to-Spain cocaine pipeline netted him hundreds of millions of dollars if not more, federal lawmakers believe.
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