Hurricane Debby Blows $1 Million Worth of Cocaine Onto Florida Beaches

Hurricane Debby has deed the U.S. seashore with winds reaching up to 70 miles per hr (112 kilometers per hour) but that’s not the lone benignant of stroke it’s brought.

On Monday, Acting Chief Patrol Agent of the U.S. Border Patrol – Miami Sector Samuel Briggs II wrote connected X (formerly Twitter) that the tempest washed up 25 packages of cocaine onto a enactment successful the Florida Keys.

In total, the packages of coke weighed 70 pounds (31.7 kilograms) and had a thoroughfare worth of astir $1 million, said Briggs. They were recovered by a “Good Samaritan,” who reported them to authorities.

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Hurricanes person a wont of bringing unexpected, amerciable gifts ashore. In 2019, much than a twelve bricks of cocaine were recovered connected 2 Florida beaches aft the authorities was deed by Hurricane Dorian.

Sometimes, storms aren’t adjacent indispensable for the oversea to vomit up illicit enactment favors. In June, 71 pounds (32 kilograms) of cocaine estimated to person a thoroughfare worth of astir $5 million were recovered from yet different Florida beach. Almost a twelvemonth earlier, Tampa Mayor Jane Castor was having a relaxing sportfishing travel successful her location authorities (we’re sensing a signifier here), erstwhile she reeled successful different 70 pounds of disco dandruff.

Debby made landfall successful Florida connected Monday and is presently heading crossed the bluish portion of the authorities toward Georgia and South Carolina. At slightest 4 radical are dead arsenic a effect of accidents attributed to the storm.

Almost 250,000 households are without power and the National Hurricane Center warned that flooding tin beryllium expected crossed the Southeastern United States implicit the adjacent fewer days.