Oh, comic books - is there anything you can't do? Apparently we can add "laundering drug money" to the list of things comic books are good for, or were good for, I should say. Apparently the fine specimen pictured to the right there was one of a number of men who were using vintage comic books as a means to launder the money they made from their real business: selling meth.
"It appeared they were working on a startup company for high-end comic books," said Don Quick, the district attorney in Adams County near Denver.
Quick said the seized comic books included some first-edition Superman and Batman titles. The fragile, vintage comics were stored in plastic bags for protection.
According to a grand jury indictment released Monday, the Castro brothers arranged for weekly, multiple-pound shipments of the meth from Phoenix, Arizona. The brothers then distributed the drugs to a network of runners that made deliveries to dealers around the Denver area.
Apparently 40 of the 41 suspects involved in this Legion of Doom have been rounded up, but the last one is still at large. I suspect we all know where he's hiding out.
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