Marshals Service Auctioning Off Drug Lord's Hot Rods

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MIAMI (CBSMiami) - If you got the cash, you can cruise the streets of the Magic City in the genuine ride of a Miami drug kingpin.

No kidding.

The U.S. Marshals Service is auctioning off nine high-end vehicles seized during the investigation into drug lord Alvaro Lopez Tardón.

Among those on the auction block are 2003 Ferrari Enzo, with 13,088 miles, a Bugatti Veyron 16.4, Rolls-Royce Ghost, Ferrari F430, Maybach 57S, and four luxury SUVs (two Mercedes and two Range Rovers). A tenth vehicle, a Bentley Continental GTC, is also for sale at the auction. It's from a New Jersey case.

On Wednesday, the cars were put on display at Marlins Park so interested bidders could get a first-hand look at them.

"We have ten on display right now - exotic vehicles right now. If we added everything up on one price ticket it would be about $3.9 million," said Kevin Scully with the Apple Auctioneering Co.

"It started at a $100 bid and it's currently sitting at $1,900,100," said Scully.

The what adds to the price of some the vehicles is their rarity.

There have been only 7,500 of the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 made over the last 100 years and only 2,000 of them exist today. As for the Ferrari Enzo, only 400 were made and the one up for auction was number 399.

Tardón, 41, a Spanish national, was the head of an international narcotics trafficking and money laundering ring. They are suspected of distributing more than 7,500 kilos of South American cocaine in Madrid. They reportedly laundered more than $14 million in drug money in Miami by buying high-end real estate, luxury and exotic automobiles and other high-end items.

After a seven-week trial in 2014, Tardón was convicted on one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering and 13 counts of money laundering. He was sentenced to 150 years and is serving his sentence at the Miami Federal Detention Center.

"I hope the message we send out today from the U.S. Marshals Service is that at the end of the day crime doesn't pay. They might have been driving that a year ago, but today they're sitting in jail being told when to eat, when to go to sleep and looking out the window with bars instead of looking out of the Ferrari's windows," said Amos Rojas Jr. with the U.S. Marshals Service.

The auction for Tardón's high end rides ends Thursday at 11 a.m. For more information, go to appleauctioneeringco.com.