Tampa Bay mayor reels in $1M worth of cocaine after discovering black package on fishing trip

Tampa Bay Mayor Jane Castor hauled in a package deal of cocaine price an estimated $1.1 million whereas on a fishing journey along with her household final month, in response to a report.

Castor was out having fun with a Sunday of mahi-mahi fishing off the Florida Keys when the mayor’s youthful brother identified a strange-looking black package deal bobbing within the sea.

“Cocaine!” mentioned Castor, who spent three a long time with the Tampa Police Division.

The mayor served eight years in narcotics and 6 years as police chief.

The household pulled the microwave-sized package deal on the deck. Certainly sufficient, beneath layers of plastic had been tightly packed bricks of coke, according to the Tampa Bay Times.

The US Border Patrol later confirmed that the haul was 70 kilos of cocaine price estimated to have a avenue worth of $1.1 million.

Castor saved their location off the Key metropolis of Marathon and headed again to their rental, she advised the newspaper. Because the boat approached the dock, she phoned the Monroe County Sheriff’s Workplace. 

When an area officer arrived she advised him that she was once a cop in Tampa. Later two federal brokers confirmed up and took the package deal away.

Chief Border Patrol Agent Walter N. Slosar tweeted a photograph on July 24 exhibiting 25 bricks, every adorned with purple and blue butterflies.

On the identical day, The Miami Herald reported the discover — though with no point out of Mayor Castor.

The mayor mentioned she and her household had been making the journey to the Keys for almost decade to benefit from the annual two-day lobster harvest held in late July.

Castor’s son and his girlfriend had been additionally onboard on the time, she advised the Tampa Bay Instances.

Castor mentioned her household spent the remainder of their trip diving and fishing.

Whereas they caught no extra medicine, they did pull in about 60 lobsters.