More than $1m worth of cocaine washes up on Florida beach after Hurricane Debby

Packages of cocaine washed ashore in the Florida Keys after Hurricane Debby. Photograph: @USBPChiefMIP via X

Several packages of cocaine with a street value exceeding $1m have washed up on a Florida beach after Hurricane Debby crashed ashore in the state on Monday and progressed up the eastern seaboard.

The acting chief patrol agent of the US border patrol’s division in Miami, Samuel Briggs, shared a picture of the confiscated drugs on X, showing the 25 packages – or 70lb – of cocaine washed up on a Florida Keys beach.