50 Pounds Of Cocaine Found On Texas Beach

I remember beach clean-ups when I was a kid. We would walk along the shore picking up paper cups and soda cans, a shoe here and there, and maybe even a car tire or two. And we were given very clear instructions not to touch any needles. But we were never told what to do if we came upon pounds and pounds of cocaine.

KFDM News is Texas reports that more than 50 pounds of cocaine – worth almost a half million dollars – washed up on shore several miles west of McFaddin Beach on the upper Texas coast.

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).

A couple of beach combers found the drugs late Tuesday afternoon several miles west of Sea Rim State Park and called authorities.

“It’s worth about $20,000 a kilo wholesale on the streets of Beaumont,” said Major Singletary. At 24 kilos, the cocaine weighs about 53 pounds and it’s street value is about $480,000 in Beaumont.

“It’s pure cocaine,” Major Singletary told KFDM News. “It washed ashore and someone probably missed their pick up. Someone is out a bunch of money.”

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Check out pictures of the Texas beach cocaine at the KFDM News website.

This may or may not surprise you, but this is not the only time cocaine has been found washed up on a beach shore in the last decade.

In August of 1999 on a small island in The Bay of Exploits north of Embree in Canada a family was on a fishing trip when the children found a package with nearly 1 ½ kilos of cocaine.

Local police said the packaging that the drugs were found in was similar to bags of cocaine that washed ashore on the West Coast of the island in 1997 and 1998.

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