Hurricane Debby Unloads $1 Million Worth of Cocaine on Florida Beach
I guess it’s not that uncommon to find cocaine on a Florida beach.
Florida hurricane!!
The Border Patrol – Miami Sector said Hurricane Debby blew $1 million worth of cocaine on a Florida Keys beach.
That’s 25 packages weighing 70 lbs.
Hurricane Debby blew 25 packages of cocaine (70 lbs.) onto a beach in the Florida Keys. Good Samaritan discovered the drugs & contacted authorities. U.S. Border Patrol seized the drugs, which have a street value of over $1 million dollars.#Hurricane #Debby #Florida #floridakeys pic.twitter.com/nsjKu6qm8V
— Samuel Briggs II (@USBPChiefMIP) August 5, 2024
Hurricane Debby landed as a Category 1 hurricane, with winds topping 80mph.
The storm is now a tropical storm as it heads to the Carolinas. It has killed four people.
This isn’t the first time a pedestrian has come across drugs. From The New York Post:
Bricks of cocaine and other drugs frequently wash up on southern Florida beaches and surrounding waters as smugglers traffic the illegal substances from South America to the US.
In June, a beachgoer scouring a north Florida beach for sea turtle nests instead stumbled upon $4 million worth of cocaine bricks.
The discovery stunned law enforcement who said it’s rare for the drugs to make it to Nassau County, which is much farther north than where they usually wash up.
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Very deceptive headline, Mary, to make us think it was raining coke and getting our hopes up.
Florida Man going to be very happy soon 🙂
Anybody seen Hunter Biden lately?
It’s a little early for a White Christmas.
Actually a little late, since so many places do “Christmas in July” promotions.
Wait, 70lb of cocaine is worth a million dollars? The Biden administration really has done a number on the economy, because I thought the prices for coke were much higher.
I saw someone bring this up on twitter. The answer was (apparently) it’s impossible to say exactly how much this was worth in retail/street money because there’s no information on the purity of the cocaine. If it’s largely uncut, 70-pounds might be worth as much as $1B (or more). If it’s already highly cut, the value would likely be significantly less….but WAY more than a million, probably well more than half a billion.
Someone else pointed out that for whatever reasons, cocaine – as a commodity – has NOT outpaced inflation over the last couple decades. In fact, it’s not even kept up with inflation. I think that’s interesting. Is that because our borders are so porous is it because cocaine isn’t en vogue like it once was and demand has fallen sharply? I really don’t know
and demand has fallen sharply?
Well, Hunter is supposedly on the wagon……..
70 pounds is 31,751.50 grams. I can’t imagine that even the purest product sells for more than $300/g. So, at an extremely high street value of even $300/g, you reach about $9.5 million. A billion dollars would mean $315,308.21 per gram which is completely and utterly absurd.
$1 million is definitely low, since that’s about $31.50/g; not even the worst trash is going to sell for that little and stuff straight from the cartel shouldn’t be cut that much yet.
No, a million is about right. Red Raptor is an off brand.
please inform years-prior me (pre-sobriety) of where to obtain cocaine for $30/g.
garbage bartender coke used to be $80/g if you bought enough at one time
Yeah, my mistake. I misread that tweet I referenced and thought the person was quoting figures in thousands. He wasn’t. It would be a million, give or tack.
Cheap blow? Ok, go to Mama Molly’s on Asylum Street in Hartford. Leave a yellow hankie dangling from left shirt sleeve. Knock on back door- two bits and a shave style. When door panel slides open say, “Franco has taken Madrid.”
“Someone else pointed out that for whatever reasons, cocaine – as a commodity – has NOT outpaced inflation over the last couple decades. ”
That’s because drug dealers are not like those greedy corporations that FJB talks about. He should be using them as an example of restraint.
Or it’s just not as susceptible to market forces because the transport cost is menial compared to the risk/reward profit margin.
That’s a million if it gets to the street. The million is supported by the difficulty of getting it to the street, and this is one example. Probably wholesale it’s less than $900, so not even a crime in California.
I don’t know about that. In Florida there’s usually streets right next to the beaches. 😉
Oh I thought I was going on a treasure hunt!
It would be tempting for a few people, I believe they made a movie very close to this
Don’t try it at home friends
Not sure what term they use for floating bricks of cocaine but floating bails of marijuana is referred to as square grouper by the locals.
At least the Florida shore coke complies with labeling laws, up north all we get are shards of unlabeled wind turbine propellers, drifting paddle boards and Kennedy family cars and planes.
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