This week, boaters off the coast of Florida found a bundle of 56 pounds of cocaine, valued at $625,000 on the black market, according to local authorities.
Collier County Sheriff Kevin Rambosk posted on Facebook, saying, “We appreciate the help of Good Samaritans in our community who saw something unusual and contacted law enforcement.”
The pills were found off Panther Key, close to Everglades City, Florida. They were found inside a microwave-sized box that was filled with kilograms of the substance that had been individually wrapped.
Police concluded that the bundle had been in the sea for a considerable amount of time because it was coated in barnacles.
“Detectives said the cocaine most likely washed in with the tides from the east coast due to recent storms,” according to the sheriff’s office. “Large packages of drugs ranging from marijuana to hashish to cocaine have been discovered floating in the waters off Miami and the Florida Keys.”
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The sheriffs claim that, in contrast to now, similar discoveries were more frequent in the area throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Not all illegal items found in Florida waters recently were cocaine.
An estimated $1 million worth of cocaine washed up on a Florida Keys beach close to Islamorada during the recent Tropical Storm Debby. Cocaine worth $1 million bearing bald eagles was discovered floating in the Florida Keys by boaters in June.
