They probably didn’t get the idea from Better Homes and Gardens.
Two alleged drug traffickers stuffed more than 18 pounds of cocaine inside an oven and dresser in a Queens apartment and kept nearly $70,000 in cash neatly tucked in a shoe organizer.
Creative crooks Wilmar Florez-Jimenez, 30, and Alvaro Montoya, 51, likely used hollowed-out car tires to bring the drugs into Florez-Jimenez’s Jackson Heights home near 81st Street and 30th Ave, law-enforcement officials said.
Indictments unsealed today reveal that Florez-Jimenez and Montoya of Elizabeth, NJ, outfitted a dresser with a false back to hide part of the stash.
Bundles of cash from their illegal enterprise were stored in an over-the-door show organizer, next to Florez-Jimenez sneakers, officials said.
Montoya was picked up after cops doing surveillance near at the apartment saw him taking out trash bags and stuffing them into a Chevy Envoy SUV. The bags had hollowed-out tires in them. Cops later found a half-pound of cocaine under a folded down rear seat.
Florez-Jimenez was also stopped leaving his building. After finding a small amount cocaine him, investigators searched the apartment and uncovered the mother lode.
The duo were hit with a slew of drug-related charges.


