Drug smuggler's bridal collection hits auction block (again) in ATL
Lauren Colley contributed to this story.
Metro Atlanta shoppers will have another chance this week to purchase bridal wear seized by the FBI from a convicted Alaskan drug smuggler.
The collection will be up for a three-day auction starting Wednesday at the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Building, and includes more than 250 items such as gowns and tuxedos.
The Down the Aisle wedding sale is part of the federal government's attempt to auction off the merchandise, seized two years ago, according to the New York Times.
The bridal shop owner used drug proceeds to finance her Juneau store, according to the Times.
The government previously auctioned off the collection, through the Atlanta branch of the U.S. General Services Administration, in July.
“There’s always a sunny side to something,” Kristy Tubbs, a marriage and financial counselor who traveled from Fredericksburg, Va., for the show, told the Times during the first auction.
“When you walk in, you don’t see a crime or a victim," she continued. "You see hope and joy and future and restoration.”
