Cops find massive £18MILLION cash, drugs and guns stash in wall compartment

COPS seized a record £18million in cash and drugs hidden in the walls of a home belonging to a brother and sister.

Luis Hernandez-Gonzalez, 44, and Salma Hernandez, 32, were arrested after allegedly peddling marijuana from their home in Miami, Florida.

The cash was divided into $100 (USD) bills and stashed in orange heat-sealed buckets with Home Depot labels. Investigators also discovered large machine guns.

The secret compartment where the drugs, guns and cash were kept was obscured by a hallway statuette of St Lazarus, a Catholic saint popular in Cuba.

Police in Miami say it is their biggest drug bust in history.

Hernandez-Gonzalez owns The Blossom Experience, a store that sells lights and gardening equipment.

But cops believe that was a front for his growing drug trade. They claim he was involved in a drug ring that trafficked marijuana to Tennessee, in the US.

In June, 11 Cuban nationals were arrested in the state for their alleged involvement in the drugs trade.

Hernandez-Gonzalez is being held on more than £7million bond, according to jail records.

Miami prosecutor Adam Korn said: “For a man with $20million in his walls, an elevated bond is clearly necessary.”

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