Authorities in South Florida recovered a big bail of narcotics over the weekend, after receiving a report that packages marked "XXX" could possibly be seen floating off the coast of Key West on Saturday.
Key West police responded to the report together with officers from the Monroe County Sheriff's Workplace. Because the unnamed one that known as within the tip had described, officers discovered a stash of bricks wrapped in plastic and marked with decals about 50 miles from shore in Key West's Coconut Mallory Marina.
The bail contained 25 rectangular bricks, in line with the county sheriff. Pictures printed on the workplace's Fb web page with its current information launch saying the drug seizure confirmed the bricks uniformly packaged and organized in a pile. Every bore a black-and-white "XXX" sticker.
Officers estimated that the bricks collectively weighed round 55 kilos. The sheriff's workplace mentioned they had been submitted to the workplace's property and proof division, and would finally be turned over to federal authorities.
The sheriff's information launch solely referred to the medicine present in Key West as narcotics, however a report by CBS Miami famous that they had been suspected to be cocaine. The Monroe Sheriff's Workplace seized packages containing 74 kilos of cocaine in 2020, after a fisherman reported observing them floating within the ocean about 15 miles from shore, in line with CBS Miami.