A total of 29.5 kilos of cocaine in a bundle were found this Wednesday by a bather on a beach in the Florida Keys with an approximate street value of one million dollars (about 930,000 euros), the Border Patrol reported ( USBP) of the Miami sector. The bather notified the authorities of his discovery and agents from the USBP and the sheriff's office proceeded to recover the package that the waves dragged to the beach in this tourist area of Florida.
Images from the Border Patrol show a plastic bag tied with ropes with the bricks of drugs inside.
The discovery of bundles of cocaine and drugs on the coasts and beaches of Florida and their recovery by the authorities is a fact that is repeated with some frequency in this state, mostly in the Keys, in the extreme south. It was not reported that any arrests had been made or the origin of the seized bales.
Last August, the mayor of the Florida city of Tampa, Democrat Jane Castor, found 70 pounds (almost 32 kilos) of cocaine floating in the sea when she enjoyed a day of fishing with her family.
Castor, who before becoming mayor was a police officer for 30 years, was near Marathon, one of the islands in the Florida Keys, when she and her relatives saw a black spot that they thought was a school of fish and turned out to be a bundle. plastic with cocaine “bricks” inside.
And last October, 67 pounds (30.4 kilos) of cocaine were found in bales on a beach in Daytona Beach, in Volusia County (east coast of Florida).
