Volunteers were cleaning up a Florida Keys beach. Then they found a brick of cocaine
Volunteers participating in a community cleanup at a Florida Keys park found some unexpected debris: a brick of cocaine.
Saturday’s cleanup and drug discovery happened at Harry Harris Park, an oceanfront Monroe County recreational area in the Upper Keys community of Tavernier, between Key Largo and the Village of Islamorada.
Monroe sheriff’s spokesman Adam Linhardt said the package weighed one kilogram and was turned over to U.S. Border Patrol agents.
The location of the island chain, spreading all the way from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, means the Keys are often the landing spot for errant cocaine and marijuana shipments most likely lost en route for somewhere on the mainland.
On Jan. 23, people found two large loads of cocaine on Big Pine Key in the Lower Keys with a total weight of more than 140 pounds and a street value of around $2 million.
