Nearly $1 Million Worth Of Cocaine Found By Person Walking On The Beach In Florida

Another day, another giant bag of cocaine washed up on a Florida beach.

Over the weekend, United States Border Patrol agents, along with the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office, seized almost $1 million worth of cocaine that had floated its way on to a beach in Daytona.

The package weighed 67 pounds and had an estimated street value of approximately $970,000.

It was first spotted by someone who was walking on the beach, which is, sadly, not an uncommon occurrence in Florida these days.

Back in August, Kelly Castor the mayor of Tampa, was on a family fishing trip in the Florida Keys recently when she caught a 70 pound bag of coke worth around $1.1 million.

In July, during “Shark Week,” Discovery aired an episode in which scientists attempted to discern how all of the cocaine that’s washed up on the beaches of Florida over the decades has affected the region’s shark population.

The researchers rigged up some fake bales of cocaine to test how the sharks would react. They reacted pretty much how one would expect sharks to react when given cocaine. Not only did the sharks take bites out of the bales of fake cocaine, one of them dragged a bale off with him.

But it’s not just a Florida problem.

This past February, New Zealand law enforcement authorities found over 3.5 tons of cocaine floating in the Pacific Ocean.

In March, authorities found $87 million worth of cocaine and two dead bodies on a submarine during a seizure in the Colombian Pacific.

And in April, Italian police found two tons of cocaine floating in the waters off Sicily.

So far this year, Customs and Border Protection has recorded over 38.5 tons of cocaine having been seized in the United States.

The number is second only to methamphetamine (63.5 tons) and marijuana (67 tons) and 7,300 more pounds than was seized in 2022.