The former home of a notorious Colombian drug lord is continuing to throw up mysteries even after its demolition.
A Miami Beach mansion once owned by Pablo Escobar is currently being torn down - nearly 20 years after it was seized from him by the US government.
But during the demolition, workers discovered a metalsafe hidden underneath concrete and weighing around 50-stone.
The safe will now be kept inside a bank vault guarded by armed security until the property owners decide to open it.
Fast-food entrepreneur Christian de Berdouare, who owns the home with his wife, television journalist Jennifer Valoppi, said: "This is real. It’s still locked. It’s very, very heavy. We can’t believe it — now Pablito is my best friend.
"We had left one of the walls... when I started to knock it down, a piece of rubble hit the foundation, the floor sunk and I saw it.
Pablo Escobar's safe has been found... but what's inside it?
"It was something gray. I grabbed it with the excavator’s claw, realized it was a safe and started to yell to tell them."
Escobar was shot and killed by police in 1993 but was known to have amazed a huge fortune in property and jewels.
At roughly 6,500 square feet, the four-bedroom mansion, built in 1948. would have been modest for the ‘King of Cocaine’.
At the peak of his criminal enterprises, he was known to be one of the wealthiest men in the world - after supplying the vast majority of cocaine smuggled into the United States.
de Berdouare plans to demolish the $10 million and build a more modern property in its place.
The mansion has been sat empty since he purchased it in 2014.
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