Take a look at this:
Now take a look at what was inside:
![Indeed, those are packets of $100 bills in heat-sealed compressed bags.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/f4b1435/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5184x3452+0+0/resize/880x586!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2016%2F06%2F29%2Fimg_0318-1-_custom-3976ce6beb28b3c45b6148da8e57dff0cd221f54.jpg)
![Police are still counting the money.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/37afb2d/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5184x3452+0+0/resize/880x586!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2016%2F06%2F29%2Fimg_0369_custom-f9d054fe8f942b9a8f17e0873fa2542da959b888.jpg)
That's what the Miami-Dade Police Department found in the home of Luis Hernandez-Gonzalez, a Miami man who owns a store that sells equipment for indoor gardening.
Police are still counting the money but they know it's about $20 million, making it the largest cash seizure in Miami-Dade Police Department history.
According an arrest affidavit, police searched Hernandez-Gonzalez's home after confidential informants tied him to the drug trade. According to the affidavit, investigators wire-tapped Hernandez-Gonzalez's phone and heard him hand out advice on how to keep pot plants healthy.
During one conversation, an alleged client describes sad-looking plants that are not responding to extra oxygenation. Hernandez-Gonzalez asks for a picture and tells the person that they have to be patient. Giving a plant extra oxygen after weeks of neglect is like giving "a starving old man ... testosterone," Hernandez-Gonzalez says.
Police eventually contacted Hernandez-Gonzalez and he was cooperative telling them that he could draw up a list of clients who he believes grew marijuana indoors. They searched his shop and found bundles of money and police allege that Hernandez-Gonzalez voluntarily let them search his home.
Police dogs led them to more bundles of money. Police say they found pot seeds and steroids and a loaded Tec-9 with an extended clip.
Through the attic floor, they detected a hidden room:
![This is what police saw through attic.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/013221d/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5184x3452+0+0/resize/880x586!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2016%2F06%2F29%2Fimg_0322-1-_custom-005f90b1d4e25e7ac118f3e9af17bd957e417c6d.jpg)
The secret room was on the other side of this wall:
![Behind this wall was a secret room.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/5f82dda/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2448x2317+0+0/resize/880x833!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2016%2F06%2F29%2Fimg_3274_custom-a710bc7e572a8be2f8f55c14040c35176f179f0b.jpg)
Detectives cut through and found 24 5-gallon buckets full of cash.
![There they are.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/a9db05d/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2448x2924+0+0/resize/880x1051!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2016%2F06%2F29%2Fimg_3277_custom-98aa080c9b91bedc11dbcadd03013d7bd1ac414d.jpg)
Hernandez-Gonzalez was arrested and charged with money laundering, cannabis trafficking and other charges. His sister was also charged.
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