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Divers looking for submerged vehicles in an effort to solve missing persons cases discovered over 30 cars over the weekend that they believe may be tied to criminal activity.
Volunteer divers looking over the weekend for underwater vehicles in South Florida in an effort to solve missing persons cases found something unexpected: roughly 30 cars submerged under a single lake, according to the police.
The cars were discovered a few miles west of Miami International Airport in Doral, in a commercial area filled with cafes, a pharmacy and a car dealership. They were likely dumped there decades ago by people hoping to rid themselves of a car because of its connection to a crime, the search teams said.
The number of vehicles surprised the divers. “That’s the highest we’ve ever found in a lake,” said Ken Fleming, the founder of Recon Dive Recovery, one of the groups involved in the search. Recon Dive employs divers and special equipment such as sonar to find missing people and cars underwater.
The Doral Police Department said in a statement on Monday that it was investigating the submerged vehicles, and that dive teams from multiple agencies had been dispatched to extract them.
Angel Rodriguez, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade Police Department, said that dive teams had begun retrieving the cars Tuesday morning. Mr. Fleming estimated the extraction could take several weeks.
He suggested that some of the cars could trace back to the armed conflict between the United States government and the Colombian drug cartels during the 1970s and ’80s.
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Divers Hoping to Solve Cold Cases Find 30 Cars in Florida Lake – The New York Times
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