A good Samaritan alerted authorities after coming across the packages, which weighed about 70 pounds and contained cocaine with an estimated street value of more than $1 million, the agency said.
A week later on Monday, the Collier County Sheriff’s Office said another batch of cocaine – more than half a million dollars’ worth – was found floating near Everglades City, in the Gulf of Mexico.
The boaters found what was later determined to be 56 pounds of cocaine wrapped in a package about the size of a microwave oven.
“Detectives said the cocaine most likely washed in with the tides from the east coast due to recent storms,” the post read.
“Large packages of drugs ranging from marijuana to hashish to cocaine have been discovered floating in the waters off Miami and the Florida Keys.”.
In June, authorities in Alabama said 55 pounds of cocaine with an estimated value of $450,000 washed up on Dauphin Island in Mobile County, The Associated Press reported.
Weeks later, a beach goer on Amelia Island in northeastern Florida came across 70 pounds of cocaine with an estimated street value of around $4 million, according to CNN affiliate WJXT. »
