Cocaine Bags Wash Up On Fla. Beaches
Street Value Totals More Than $1M Combined
POSTED: Tuesday, December 12, 2006
UPDATED: 2:14 am EST December 13,
2006
FLORIDANA BEACH, Fla. -- About $600,000 worth of cocaine washed up on a Central Florida beach Tuesday hours after nearly $500,000 worth of cocaine washed up in South Florida.Tuesday, Lena McAneney and her friend found a box stuffed with 20 packages of cocaine on Floridana Beach.McAneney said she immediately called the police."It's scary -- there's people looking for it," she said. "People die for stuff like this."Brevard County Sheriff's Office spokesman Andrew Walters confirmed the discovery. Authorities estimated the drug's weight at 27 kilos and its street value at $600,000, Local 6 News partner Florida Today reported.Earlier Tuesday on a Hollywood beach, 37 kilos of cocaine were wrapped tightly in cellophane and had likely been at sea for a month before washing ashore, said Capt. Tony Rode, a Hollywood police spokesman.Rode said drugs are usually dumped into the ocean when people are being chased by the Coast Guard.Police are investigating both incidents.Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
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Copyright 2007 by Internet Broadcasting Systems and Local6.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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