Posted on 08/05/2024 6:47:42 PM PDT by Libloather
More than $1 million worth of cocaine washed up on a beach in the Florida Keys after Hurricane Debby battered the Gulf Coast’s Big Bend Monday morning, officials said.
Debby, which made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane early in the morning, carried more than two dozen 70-pound packages of cocaine ashore as winds topped 80 miles per hour, US Border Patrol said.
“Hurricane Debby blew 25 packages of cocaine (70 lbs.) onto a beach in the Florida Keys,” US Border Patrol acting chief patrol Agent Samuel Briggs II said in a social media post.
Briggs shared photos of the taped-up bricks of cocaine which featured a glowing red triangular symbol on them.
He said the drugs have a street value that surpasses $1 million.
A beachgoer discovered the drugs — wrapped inside a trash bag — among seaweed, leaves and other debris that washed up on the beach, according to photos posted in reply to Briggs’ post.
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That’s a lot of blow.
Secret Service says it ‘disposed of’ cocaine found at White House after report of in-fighting, DNA hit
It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any blow.
Debby Blows
I am 100% confident that the Secret Service knows exactly who this belonged to. That person may have quietly resigned or was transferred. Still curious that they covered this up, but no surprise as the Supreme Court covered up whoever disclosed the Roe v Wade decision.
never even knew it was a hurricane.
That's a big trash bag, too, to hold 1,750 pounds of cocaine. Maybe the Post writer misunderstood, and it was 25 packages totaling 70 pounds. That would seem to be more in line with a value of $1 million, though I don't really know what cocaine prices are per pound. More than about $570, I'd guess.
This is going to put a ding in the turd rolling far left’s victory celebration. I wonder if Kamalbla bought Clintoon’s fireworks display she couldn’t use back in 2016.
Looks like the ill effects of DEI employment have hit the cartels as well.
That stuff hadn’t been stepped on so worth a lot more...so I’ve read...
Would a heavy trash bag float?
Where was Hunter in all of this?
Bet he's headed right straight down there as fast as he can go.
Yeah, 70 pounds for over $1 mil works out to maybe $15K per pound. 1,750 pounds for that price would be under $600 a pound, and I think even decent marijuana goes for more than that now. The Post writer screwed up.
Maybe if it were one of the 55-gallon size and had considerable air trapped inside. I don’t know. I’d think that a package of cocaine by itself would sink.
Came here to say that.
Beach Blanket Big Blow.
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Even if it was “only” 70 pounds, somebody’s got some ‘splainin to do. If he was lucky, he drowned in the storm.
There quote is correct:
“Hurricane Debby blew 25 packages of cocaine (70 lbs.) onto a beach in the Florida Keys,” US Border Patrol acting chief patrol Agent Samuel Briggs II said in a social media post.
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