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The Nassau County Sheriff’s Office on Friday announced it recovered nearly $1 million worth of cocaine that washed up on a Florida beach bearing the same bald eagle labels as a batch found by boaters in the Florida Keys last weekend. The sheriff’s office said a “watchful citizen” saw the suspicious packages that washed ashore on the south end of Amelia Island, in the northeastern corner of the state north of Jacksonville, shortly before 6:30 a.m. Friday and reported the discovery. The Nassau County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Unit secured the area and seized a total of 71.4 pounds of cocaine, v…

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