Smugglers nabbed shipping drugs in seafood shipment
Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles Bronson said Monday that two South Florida men had been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle nearly 200 pounds of marijuana out of Florida in a refrigerated truck taking seafood to the New York area.
Bronson said officers from the Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement arrested the men at the department’s northbound Interdiction Station along I-95 near Jacksonville Sunday after a routine inspection of the mixed seafood shipment uncovered the marijuana.
Authorities said the marijuana had a street value estimated at $400,000.