A brick of $41,000 worth of cocaine was seized Saturday in the Florida Keys.
“Yesterday a good Samaritan discovered a 2.7 pound brick of #cocaine while boating in the Florida Keys. The cocaine is valued at about $41,000 and was delivered to the US,” Walter N. Slosar, chief of the Miami Sector Border Patrol (USBP) reported on Twitter.
Findings of cocaine packages both at sea and on boats by authorities in Florida are relatively common.
Last June, the US Coast Guard (USCG) offloaded in Miami a total of 14,153 pounds of cocaine with a value of more than 186 million dollars.
The offloaded drugs were intercepted during nine separate cases in the international waters of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean as a result of the efforts of 7 air and sea crews.
In addition to the seized drugs, 12 alleged smugglers who are facing prosecution in US federal courts were arrested.
In January, the USBP reported finding packages of cocaine over a weekend in the Florida Keys, valued at $2.3 million.
“Over the weekend, good Samaritans discovered suspicious packages that washed up in the Florida Keys. The packages contained 146 pounds of cocaine and were turned over to Border Patrol custody. The drugs have an estimated street value of $2.3 million,” Slosar reported at the time.
At the end of December of last year, for its part, it was unloaded in Port Everglades, Florida, a cocaine stash of 13,375 pounds, with an estimated value of $176 million.
