Housekeeper at fancy midtown Atlanta hotel finds $250k in cocaine in closet, police say

ATLANTA, Ga. — A housekeeper at a downtown hotel discovered a quarter million dollars worth of cocaine inside a closet.

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Channel 2′s Michael Seiden was at the Georgian Terrace hotel in midtown, a housekeeper was cleaning a guest room and found a duffle bag with nine bricks of cocaine.

Multiple sources familiar with the investigation tell Channel 2 Action News that authorities are working to determine if the drugs are connected to a Mexican drug cartel.

Investigators believe the unique packaging could help them figure out where the drugs came from.

Each brick was wrapped in paper with a photo of a black rattlesnake.

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An Atlanta police officer’s body camera video recorded the moment investigators seized the drugs.

“Somebody’s going to hear about this,” one officer says in the video.

Before making an arrest, Atlanta Police brought out its K-9 unit to sniff for any additional drugs. Then detectives reviewed surveillance video from the hotel and identified their suspect as 24-year-old Voskae Wallace.

Days later police and DEA agents arrested Wallace inside an apartment at an undisclosed location. He’s now charged with trafficking cocaine.

Sieden talked to Christ Staples, a South Florida native who now calls midtown Atlanta home. He said the video takes him back to the 80s when he was a young kid growing up in Miami, which, at the time, was considered America’s drug capital.

“I grew up in Miami, so remember when the bricks were rolling up on the beaches,” Staples said. “It seems like it’s right out of a show.”

Seiden stopped by the hotel Thursday but the manager declined to comment on the ongoing investigation.

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