Tag: Florida Keys

Packages of cocaine keep washing ashore the Florida Keys

Written by Cape Coral Mortgage Syndicated User on May 23, 2021. Posted in Cape Coral Mortgage, Mortgage Cape Coral.

ISLAMORADA, Fla. (AP) — Packages of cocaine keep washing ashore the Florida Keys. The most recent packages washed up on Wednesday and Thursday on the Islamorada shoreline. Each package weighed about 2.4 pounds (1.1 kilograms), Adam Hoffner, a U.S. Border Patrol spokesman, told the Miami Herald. On Monday night, anglers in Lower Matecumbe Key found a 2.4-pound (1.1 kilogram) package of cocaine. At the start of the month, a boater off Marathon discovered a large sack filled with five bundles of marijuana weighing 62 pounds. In late April, boaters found a large sack offshore of Key Largo...

Florida deputies rescue kitten that hitched ride under patrol car

Written by Cape Coral Mortgage Syndicated User on May 12, 2021. Posted in Cape Coral Mortgage, Mortgage Cape Coral.

MONROE COUNTY, Fla. – Monroe County deputies saved a kitten on Monday after they found it hitching a ride under a deputy’s patrol car. Reports came in just after 9 a.m. of a kitten running close to traffic on the Seven Mile Bridge. Deputy Jonathan Rodriguez responded to the call and found an adult cat that was dead — suspected to be the kitten’s mother — in the road. According to the sheriff’s office, Deputy Rodriguez saw the kitten run toward his patrol car and apparently exit the bridge. He kept looking for the kitten near the base of the bridge but couldn’t...