The mayor of Tampa found 70 pounds of cocaine floating in the Atlantic Ocean during a fishing trip with her family.
The mayor of Tampa found a big catch of another sort while fishing off the coast of the Florida Keys: 70 pounds of cocaine floating in the Atlantic Ocean.
Mayor Jane Castor made the discovery July 23 while on a fishing trip with her family. Castor, a longtime Tampa police officer and the city’s first female chief, immediately recognized the package wrapped in layers of plastic as cocaine, city spokesperson Adam Smith said Tuesday.Smith also shared a U.S. Border Patrol post on the platform X, formerly known as Twitter, that showed dozens of pounds of cocaine “discovered by a recreational boater in the #FloridaKeys.
After spotting the cocaine, Castor’s family lifted the package, about the size of a microwave, onto her boat. A rip in the package showed it was more tightly packaged in bricks, the mayor told theThey discovered the cocaine off the Middle Keys city of Marathon. The package was eventually passed to federal agents after Castor called the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, the newspaper reported.Last month, a good Samaritan found a floating brick of cocaine, weighing about 2.
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