Barnacle-covered cocaine package worth $625K spotted by Florida boaters after storms

By: CNN
Posted 5:50 PM, Aug 17, 2024 and last updated 5:50 PM, Aug 17, 2024

FLORIDA (WFOR) -- Boaters in southwest Florida spotted $625,000 worth of cocaine floating in the Gulf of Mexico, officials said Monday, just days after packages of the drug were found on one of the state's beaches.

The 56 pounds of drugs were found in a barnacle-covered package, which means it had been in the water for a while, the Collier County Sheriff's Office said in a social media post. Detectives believe the cocaine washed in with the tides due to recent storms.

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Last week, U.S. Border Patrol officials said Hurricane Debby blew cocaine worth over $1 million onto a beach in the Florida Keys. "Lar ge packages of drugs ranging from marijuana to hashish to cocaine have been discovered floating in the waters off Miami and the Florida Keys," the Collier County Sheriff's Office said in its
announcement.

The cocaine found in the Gulf of Mexico was spotted floating in mangroves off Panther
Key near Everglades City, officials said, adding that it was "about the size of a microwave" and held 25 individually wrapped kilograms of cocaine.

Good Samaritans contacted authorities after seeing the package, the sheriff's office said. Detectives are working to figure out where the cocaine came from.

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Gee, do you think it might have come from Colombia, like all the other stuff which has always come from Colombia for decades?