A Madison County man looking for a good deal on a car literally got more than he bargained for when he purchased one through a government auction - about two kilos of heroin, according to authorities.
WHNT is reporting that Rick Joyner went to a government auction in Tennessee recently to get his foster son Tyrese Allen a car. Using a government auction site, he purchased a Ford Taurus for $500 that had been taken in a drug seizure.
The car was “full of junk and all kinds of stuff,” Joyner said. But he was told that anything inside was his now, and not to worry. “’Nah, we got it all; don’t worry about it,” he was told.
After towing the car back to Alabama, they popped the trunk and found a Walmart bag inside, Joyner told the station. Inside the bag were two bundles, heavily taped.
“I was looking at it and I thought, ‘Something don’t look right with this,’” he said. The bundles were turned over to the Madison County Sheriff’s Office, who said they contained about two kilos of heroin worth approximately $300,000.