Hurricane Debby blows $1M of cocaine onto Florida shore

ISLAMORADA, Fla. - While the Bay Area and South Florida may have dodged a direct hit from Hurricane Debby, the storm’s heavy rain and strong winds left a path of destruction and pushed everything from catfish to cocaine on the state’s shoreline. 

The U.S. Border Patrol says the storm washed 25 packages of cocaine onto a beach in the Florida Keys. 

READ: Sarasota residents evacuated from homes after record rainfall from Tropical Storm Debby

The drugs, which have a street value of more than $1 million, were found by a Good Samaritan who contacted authorities. 

Courtesy: US Border Patrol

After skirting its way up the west coast of Florida as a tropical storm, Debby made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane in the Big Bend Area on Monday morning. 

On Monday, dozens of people in Sarasota needed to be rescued from rising floodwaters attributed to Debby. 

At a news conference Monday afternoon, Gov. Ron DeSantis said the storm is being blamed for four deaths in Florida. Two people were killed in a traffic crash in Dixie County, a truck driver was killed in a crash in Hillsborough County and a child was killed when a tree fell on a home in Levy County.

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