MONROE COUNTY, Fla – Guests at the Islands of Islamorada resort made an unexpected discovery on Sunday morning when they found a package containing 16 bricks of what is believed to be cocaine washed up on the beach.
According to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, the package was promptly handed over to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
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Readers of the Tampa Free Press may recall that in June, twenty-five individually wrapped kilograms of suspected cocaine were found by scuba divers in approximately 100 feet of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
According to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to the Rainbow Reef Dive Center in Key Largo, where divers stated they were removing what they thought was trash when the discovery was made.
The Sheriff’s Office turned over the suspected narcotics to the U.S. Border Patrol.
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