A couple found a soggy bag stuffed with cocaine, Keys police say. The labels said ’777’
A couple found more than 50 pounds of cocaine floating off the Florida Keys on Saturday afternoon, police said.
It was wrapped up in 20 packages, or “bricks,” and stuffed inside a black duffel bag spotted about a mile from Grassy Key on the bayside, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.
The cocaine is worth more than $884,000, according to the U.S. Border Patrol’s Miami Sector agent.
“A concerned citizen discovered the cocaine washed-up along the Florida Keys coastline,” Chief Patrol Agent John R. Modlin wrote Monday o Twitter.
The waterlogged packages weighed a total of 25.26 kilograms or 55.6 pounds.
Each package was stamped with a multicolored sticker that read, “777.”
On Saturday at 12:44 p.m., deputies were called to the 58000 block of Morton Street on Grassy Key, about six miles north of the Middle Keys city of Marathon.
Border Patrol was called and seized the drugs, which tested positive for cocaine in a field test, said Adam Linhardt, spokesman for the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.
It was the second sizable drug catch in the Middle Keys this month.
On July 1, more than $1 million worth of cocaine washed up on the shore near Marathon, according to the Border Patrol.
The drugs were packaged in 29 bricks with a total weight of 35 kilograms.
Someone reported the find to police.
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