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Deputies: $1 million worth of cocaine found in the Florida Keys

The 25 packages of drugs were found near a pier, weighing about 80 pounds, deputies say.

KEY WEST, Fla. — A beachgoer found 25 packages of cocaine in the Florida Keys on Sunday.

The drugs were found around 4 p.m. near a pier on the Old Highway in Islamorada and weighed about 80 pounds, according to a news release from the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.  

Chief Patrol Agent of the U.S. Border Patrol in Miami Samuel Briggs II said the packages are worth over $1 million. He said in a post that Hurricane Debby blew the cocaine onto the beach. 

Credit: Samuel Briggs II
Twenty-five packages of cocaine were found on a beach in the Florida Keys.

The drugs were turned over to the U.S. Border Patrol, which will investigate.

This is the latest in a string of recent discoveries of cocaine along Florida shores. On July 28, a fisherman found 25 packages of cocaine offshore of north Key Largo and a few days earlier, a person diving for lobster found a brick of cocaine

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