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To hear Tampa mayor and former chief of police Jane Castor tell it, her discovery of 70 pounds of cocaine during a recent fishing trip with her family in the Florida Keys was mildly surprising and even somewhat amusing. "It was interesting," Castor said in a conversation with media Tuesday afternoon.
"I thought I'd found shade, not something shady." Castor said she and her family go down to the Keys every year for Florida's mini lobster season. This year, they had rented a house in Marathon at the end of July and had gone out mahi-mahi fishing on the Atlantic. They had caught some fish and were on their way back to shore. Castor's younger brother spotted some debris floating in the water.
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