Over two dozen bricks of cocaine marked with Nike SB branding were discovered by scuba divers in South Florida this week.
Sheriffs in Monroe County were notified on Wednesday at around 12:25 p.m. about divers at the Rainbow Reef Dive Center in Key Largo finding what they originally thought was trash. As it turned out, there were 25 individually wrapped bricks of cocaine found about 100 feet underwater in the Atlantic Ocean. Samuel Briggs, the U.S. Border Patrol Miami Sector Acting Chief Patrol Agent, told NBC 6 South Florida today that the packages contained 66 pounds of cocaine valued at over $1 million. Video of the packages can be seen in the X post below.
According to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, the deputies have turned over the suspected drugs to the U.S. Border Patrol and no arrests have been made at the time of writing for the discovery.
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