This isn’t your average fishing report, as square grouper isn’t really a fish. It’s a slang term for drugs, in this case – cocaine. The term ‘square grouper’ came about in the 1970’s as a term for a bale of marijuana that washed up on the Florida shore. As drug runners encountered authorities out in the open waters, they would dump their cargo overboard. Bales of tightly wrapped weed.
These bales would sometimes (and still do) wash up on shore leaving the person finding them to make a decision – call the cops, or take them with you. Obviously calling the police was the safest (albeit less profitable) option.
A Florida Keys charter boat captain was arrested this past weekend in a multi-agency drug bust after trying to sell kilos of cocaine he reportedly stumbled upon at sea.
Brad Picariello, 65, was arrested on Monday after selling a kilo of cocaine for $10,000 to an undercover Monroe County Sheriff’s Office detective.
2 replies on “Know what a ‘square grouper’ is?”
I don’t care nothing for dope, but I am always on the lookout for cash. My wife looks for special shells, and I look for gold, silver, and bundles of green. So far all I have found was one rubber duck and a bunch of offshore fishing lures. After the first or second Lone Star beer I mostly sit in the truck watching the waves come and go and sleep till my wife is almost out of sight and then I drive down past her and go back to sleep.
You too huh?
Grumpy