A microwave oven-sized package containing some $625,000 worth of cocaine was found floating in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida, officials said.
Boaters found the package on Monday in mangroves off Panther Key near Everglades City, Collier County Sheriff's Office officials said
Collier Sheriff Kevin Rambosk posed for a photo with the cocaine, which was posted on the sheriff's office Facebook page. The bundle was covered in barnacles, indicating it had been in the water for a long while, the sheriff's office said.Detectives are trying to determine where the cocaine came from, but said it likely washed in with the tides from the east coast from recent storms.
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