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Boaters off the coast of Florida this week spotted a bundle of 56 pounds worth of cocaine with a street value $625,000, according to local police.
“We appreciate the help of Good Samaritans in our community who saw something unusual and contacted law enforcement,” Collier County Sheriff Kevin Rambosk said in a statement on Facebook.
The drugs, discovered off Panther Key, near Everglades City, Florida, were contained in a package the size of a microwave, filled with individually wrapped kilos of the drug.
The bundle was found covered with barnacles, suggesting to police it had been in the water for a long time.
“Detectives said the cocaine most likely washed in with the tides from the east coast due to recent storms,” according to the sheriff’s office. “Large packages of drugs ranging from …