Florida boaters discover $1m price of cocaine in Atlantic Ocean

Boaters have found $1m price of cocaine off the coast of the Florida Keys, authorities introduced.

In a Fb put up on Sunday, the Monroe county sheriff’s division introduced that leisure boaters found a package deal containing roughly 21kg (61lbs) of packaged cocaine round seven miles (11km) off Islamorada, a village of islands within the Florida Keys.

Photos and movies posted on-line confirmed the packages of cocaine wrapped in clear plastic and that includes flying bald eagles.

Samuel Briggs II, the US border patrol appearing chief of the Miami sector, stated that the cocaine shall be seized by border patrol brokers. “We recognize the help from Good Samaritan’s [sic] in our group,” Briggs II wrote.

Earlier this month, divers in Key West, Florida, found greater than a dozen packages of suspected cocaine within the Atlantic Ocean. The packages, which had been marked with a blue “Nike SB” label and the Nike swoosh emblem, had been discovered roughly 100ft underwater.

This month, authorities additionally seized and offloaded practically 2,180kg of cocaine price greater than $63m at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The medicine had been discovered throughout two interdictions 24 miles north of Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, the US coast guard stated.

In Might, beachgoers within the Florida Keys found a suspicious package deal alongside the seashore which turned out to include roughly 30kg of cocaine price round $1m.

In January, the US coast guard seized over a ton of cocaine price $32m from worldwide waters of the Caribbean Sea throughout two separate instances. Six suspected smugglers had been arrested following the seizures, the US coast guard stated.

As a result of Florida’s proximity to South America and its standing as a high-intensity drug trafficking space, a lot cocaine has been present in waters close to the state that consultants say that “cocaine sharks” could also be consuming the medicine underwater.