Beach Cleaners Discovered Illegal Drugs

Oct. 24, 2009 - PRLog -- Beach combing for most people is a fun and a relaxing pastime. However, as more and more undesirable objects are washed ashore, it is becoming an unsafe occupation and not something you really want your kids to be doing.

Volunteers who were clearing the beach early Saturday morning, recently found a two pound brick of illicit drugs washed up on the beach on Dauphin Island, Alabama.

Anthony LaFrenier, Dauphin Island Police Officer said “The cocaine was packaged in black garbage bag-like material and cellophane and sealed up almost water-tight”.

LaFrenier affirmed the drugs could have been on a boat that sank, or thrown from a boat the U.S. Coast Guard was about to search. It is estimated the package could have a street value of $60,000 or more.

A 56 year old man found out a brick of cocaine on Delray Beach, Florida in September. Police instantly confiscated the package.

Beachcombers discovered two dozen neatly wrapped packages of cocaine weighing roughly 50 pounds, on a beach west of Se Rim State Park, in Sabine Pass, Texas, in May. It was expected the find to be valued at around $500.000. According to Major Jimmy Singletary with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said the cocaine was wrapped in 24 separate packages, each weighing one kilo (or 2.2 pounds).

Near Helston in the United Kingdom, a wildlife researcher and his partner found packages of cocaine in Feb 2008 wrapped in sacking, at Kynance Cove.

It is thought the packages may have drifted thousands of miles across the Atlantic in strong winds and tides. They were covered in goose barnacles, which are native to the waters of the Caribbean. It is believed the seizure was valued at millions of pounds.

A short time later other packages were washed up in Bude, U.K.

Police recovered around 37 kilos of cocaine valued at around $400,000 in Dec 2006, from a Hollywood beach.

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