Hurricane Dorian brought more than rain and high winds to Floridian beaches. Images: GMA/Melbourne Police Department
Hurricane Dorian is currently spinning its way up the Eastern Seaboard. After dropping the heaviest of hammers on the Bahamas, leaving some 70,000 people in desperate need of help, it is moving north along the Carolinas, flooding the OBX and pounding places like Florida with heavy storm surf. And in that heavy storm surf, there was a little surprise: a whole whack load of cocaine.
According to reports, at sometime around 8 a.m. on Tuesday morning, a concerned citizen stumbled onto a suspicious package in Melbourne’s Paradise Beach Park. The citizen told a beat cop who was in the area, who then picked up the package and sent it in for testing. It turned out to be a kilo of cocaine, worth in the neighborhood of $25,000.
Later, officers 20 miles north in Cocoa Beach, hometown of one Mr. Robert Kelly Slater, were alerted to a duffel bag that had been washed up in Dorian’s wake. When police unzipped the bag, they found 15 more bricks of cocaine, equaling another 25 kilos. The total dollar amount of all the drugs found is estimated to be $320,000.
All the cocaine (all the cocaine officers found, anyway) has been turned over to U.S. Custom and Border Protection, and somewhere out there a drug dealer is pissed.
