The Superior Police Department has a deal for you.
Six seized vehicles will be sold to the highest bidder July 2. The cars once belonged to drug dealers.
"They're not gems," said Capt. Matt Markon of the Superior Police Department. "They're not like Miami drug dealer cars; they're northern Wisconsin drug dealer cars."
But they are cheap, making it easier to overlook cracked headlights, chipped paint or stained interiors. Minimum bids for the cars, all 1990s models, start at $400. High bidders can drive the vehicles home immediately following the bid opening.
"All the vehicles start and run," Markon said.
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Proceeds from the sale will go to the state school fund and to the department's narcotics bureau to beef up enforcement, he said.
"It's helpful to have the assets of drug dealers assist in paying for drug investigations rather than taxpayers, who are not part of the problem," said Assistant Police Chief Chuck LaGesse.
It also serves as a looming threat to those who sell or transport drugs.
"We think it's worth the effort," Markon said. "We're taking away drug dealers' means of selling drugs."
This is the first time the department has held a vehicle auction, LaGesse said, but not the first time a car has been seized from drug dealers.
The department's DARE program parades a 1975 black Corvette out every summer for DARE graduation, Superior High School homecoming and Fourth of July festivities. It was nabbed in 1992 as the result of a local drug investigation. The department collected a second Corvette in 1994, LaGesse said, but later sold it without an auction.
