Safe Found During Demolition Of Old Pablo Escobar Mansion

Christian De Berdouare sits on the newly discovered second safe found during demolition of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar’s former mansion, Monday Jan. 25, 2016 in Miami Beach, Fla.

Reports said the new owners of the property hired professional treasure hunters to search the mansion before and after it was demolished last week.

Workers carrying out the demolition of the mansion in Miami Beach that belonged to drug trafficker Pablo Escobar found a metal safe under the house’s foundations on Monday.

“I pulled the wall down, and when the wall fell, it’s actually like a hollow floor”. Miguel Mato, while working with an excavator, was reportedly the one to discover the safe. “And when the wall fell on the floor and it kind of broke into it and then I saw it. I saw the safe”, Mato told CBS4. “It was something gray”.

“This is real. It’s still locked”. It’s still locked. It’s very, very heavy.

“We can’t believe it – now Pablito is my best friend”, joked Christian de Berdouare, founder of the fast-food chain Chicken Kitchen, who owns the property with his wife, television journalist Jennifer Valoppi.

Meanwhile, EFE reports that after concluding searches, the owners will now be demolishing a new house away from all the past crimes that are associated to Escobar.

Escobar, the Colombian druglord that is the subject of Netflix hit Narcos, died in a shootout in Medellin in 1993. Escobar bought the property in March 1980 for $762,500.

In 1987, US authorities confiscated the property, along with $20 million in properties the Colombian drug dealer owned across Florida.

Escobar is known to have hidden money in all his mansions.