Miami-Dade Police alerted to 32 cars submerged in lake | USA TODAY

Police say cars pulled from a lake in South Florida are from the 1990s and all are connected to stolen vehicle cases.

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The Miami-Dade Police Department is recovering multiple cars found submerged in a lake in Doral, Florida.

Divers working for a private company to investigate a missing person cold case said they found 32 cars while exploring a lake nestled in an industrial park west of Miami. They notified the police, which began pulling the vehicles from the lake Tuesday morning.

The cars they removed Tuesday date back to around the 1990s and all have been connected stolen vehicles. They expect that many will help close decade-old stolen car cases, but they have not ruled out the possibility of finding new evidence linked to homicide cold cases. Without being able to confirm how many cars are littered on the bottom of the lake, police are likely to need several more days to finish the extraction.

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