Waves from Dorian carried $ 800 thousand cocaine packages to beach in Florida

Police in Melbourne, Florida, confiscated more than a dozen cocaine briquettes brought ashore in a hurricane this week. Dorian.

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The first suspicious cache with forbidden powder was noticed by a vacationer. He reported this to the authorities, reports NBC News.

The police handed over the find to the laboratory. Examination confirmed: a product weighing one kilogram - Is cocaine. The letters DIAMOND were also reportedly printed on cocaine packages.

North of Melbourne, 20 miles from Cocoa Beach, Florida, authorities seized another suspicious package. It turned out to be a duffel bag with 15 packages of white powder drug.

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“This happened before the storm on Friday, 30 of August. It’s just that the beach man saw a red travel bag that looked suspicious, ” — said Fox Business Sergeant Manny Hernandez of the Cocoa Beach Police Department.

“They contacted the Cocoa Beach Police Department. When the police answered, they took the bag and took it back to the station. Then we contacted the US Customs and Border Guard, ”he added.

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Experts confirmed that the packages actually contained cocaine and each briquette contained one kilogram of the drug. The estimated cost per kilogram of cocaine in Florida is from $ 20 000 to $ 30 000, Hernandez added.

“We don’t know if the drug incident in Melbourne was related to what we found on Cocoa Beach,” — he said.

Drugs trapped on Florida by Dorian hurricane cost at least $ 810 000.

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