![A beachgoer found 25 packages of cocaine washed up on shore in the Florida Keys Sunday, according to the U.S. Border Patrol.](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 900 506"/%3E "A beachgoer found 25 packages of cocaine washed up on shore in the Florida Keys Sunday, according to the U.S. Border Patrol.")
A beachgoer found 25 packages of cocaine washed up on shore in the Florida Keys Sunday, according to the U.S. Border Patrol.
The drugs were located on a beach in the Upper Keys Village of Islamorada, said Adam Hoffner, assistant chief patrol agent for the Border Patrol’s Miami sector.
The Border Patrol said in a statement on X, formerly Twitter, that the cocaine had a street value of more than $1 million.
Cocaine found floating offshore or on the beach of the Keys is actually a common occurrence.
During the last week of July, a diver hunting for spiny lobster found a kilo of cocaine in the ocean off the Upper Keys.
Last Tuesday, a person cleaning up trash near a seawall in Key Largo found a brick of cocaine, said Adam Linhardt, spokesman for the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.
In June, divers off Key Largo found what they initially thought to be a large pile of trash floating in about 100 feet of water. It turned out to be 25 kilograms of individually wrapped cocaine.
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