Boater discovers bale of weed floating in the ocean off the Florida Keys, police say
For the fourth time this month, a boater found a significant stash of drugs floating in the ocean off the Florida Keys over the weekend, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.
The mariner discovered a bale of marijuana weighing almost 3 pounds Saturday night off Islamorada in the Upper Keys, the sheriff’s office said in a statement.
He brought the contraband to the Caloosa Cove Resort & Marina around 8 p.m. and turned it over to deputies, said sheriff’s office spokesman Adam Linhardt.
“The U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Border Patrol were notified of the incident,” Linhardt said.
July is turning out to be a busy month for drug loads found floating at sea off the island chain.
On July 2, boaters found a package containing 87 pounds of hashish offshore the Middle Keys city of Marathon.
That same day in roughly the same area, another boater found a package containing 62 pounds of cocaine, according to the Border Patrol.
And the day before, a boater found a bale of marijuana weighing about 8 pounds floating about 13 miles northwest of Big Pine Key in the Lower Keys, the sheriff’s office reported.
This story was originally published July 17, 2023 at 4:30 PM.
