During a fishing trip with her family in late July, Tampa Mayor Jane Castor caught more than just lobster.
In an interview with Nexstar’s WFLA, Castor spoke about how she discovered a large shipment of cocaine in the Florida Keys while on her trip.
The Tampa mayor and former police chief said she and her family were in the area to catch lobster and mahi mahi when her brother saw debris on their trip back to port.
“What happens is the smaller fish will congregate under the debris for the shade, which brings the larger fish, so you always want to fish around any debris,” she said.
Being a former narcotics officer herself, it didn’t take her much effort to realize what the debris really was.
“So we went over towards that and the closer we got, I realize that it was a bale of cocaine,” Castor said.
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