Large shipment of marijuana found in Keys near Ocean Reef: sheriff’s office
A person walking along a Florida Keys channel found a large shipment of marijuana in the mangroves near the Ocean Reef Club, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said.
The 10 bricks were found around 11:30 a.m. Thursday in Little Angelfish Creek Channel in north Key Largo near the gated Ocean Reef Club, the sheriff’s office said.
Deputies turned the contraband over to the U.S. Border Patrol, as is protocol when drugs are found washed up in the Keys, sheriff’s office spokesman Adam Linhardt said.
Drug wash ups or loads found at seas are not an uncommon find in the Keys. The island chain is along routes that smugglers use to import cocaine, marijuana and other narcotics into the United States.
Last week, a boater found 50 pounds of cocaine, wrapped in 20 bricks, floating in the ocean about five miles south of Islamorada in the Upper Keys.
