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Pot Keeps Washing Up On The Shores of Florida: Deputies Said A Man Tried To Steal Some
By: Kevin Williams
FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. - A man tried to take 11 pounds of marijuana that washed up on a Flagler County beach, but didn’t report it to law enforcement, Flagler County sheriff’s deputies said.
“This guy tried to take advantage of a situation and it completely backfired on him,” said Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly.
According to deputies, wit- nesses saw Robert Kelley pick up the soaked packages Thursday morn- ing as they washed up on
the shore near Jungle Hut Park in Palm Coast.
The person who called 911 told dispatchers Kelley and others were trying to open and take the bags.
Deputies said when they got to the scene, Kelley did not attempt to tell them he found the drugs. When deputies asked him about it, he pointed it at his car and said he was holding it for them, investi-
gators said.
When asked why he didn’t call deputies, Kelley said he didn’t alert the Sheriff’s Office because he wasn’t sure if they would come, deputies said.
Deputies said they found a “brick” of marijua- na wrapped in plastic in Kelley’s trunk, totaling 11 pounds of mari- juana.
Kelley tried to conceal the package by
wrapping it in a brown beach towel, deputies said.
Kelley was arrested on pos- session of mari- juana and was held on $2,500 bond.
This was not the first time this week that pack- ages of marijua- na washed up on Florida’s shores. Flagler County deputies said a total of 100 pounds of mari- juana turned up on the beach in just two days. In Volusia
County, deputies said 23 bales of marijuana washed up on the beach Wednesday in Ormond-by-the- Sea.
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