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Cocaine worth $1.1m found by Tampa mayor Jane Castor on family's fishing trip
The mayor of Tampa has found cocaine with an estimated street value of about $1.1m (£860,000) floating in the Atlantic while on a fishing trip with her family. Jane Castor, who was the city's first female police chief before becoming mayor, was fishing off the Florida Keys on 23 July when she made the discovery. She came across a package wrapped in layers of plastic which was later found to contain 70 pounds of the drug. Her family lifted the package into their boat and Ms Castor saved the location of their find on her watch. The drug haul - found in the waters off the Middle Keys city of Marathon - was handed over ... (full story)