Friday, February 24, 2012

modifying narcotics king's Ferrari 348 to become police patrol car

Colombia - Colombian police have a brilliant idea. Ferrari 348 confiscated belonged to a drug dealer who was selling auction has been converted into a police patrol car.

V8-engined two-seater car was originally owned by Hernando Gomez Bustamante, narcotics king or "Rasguno" or "Scratchy". The car was seized in 2007 on Gomez's involvement in drug trafficking, money laundering and other criminal.

Neglected all these years, because the Ferrari is just sitting in the garage of the institution which administers the assets of seized narcotics transaction, Colombia's National Drug Office (dnE). However, the government then decided to close the agency because many assets are reported missing under mysterious circumstances.


Colombian police then tried to sell the Ferrari to the public at a price estimated 250,000 U.S. dollars. But no one seemed interested, though sports cars are classified as "mint" or the steady quality for the size of the car had a record output of 1991 because the speedometer is only 1,900 km.

Colombian police and then scrape the black paint with distinctive green and white as the color of the identity of the police in the South American country.