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Hard to believe, but more cocaine has washed up on a beach in the state of Florida. This time it was a visitor to a beach in Walton County who discovered nearly a half a million dollars worth of cocaine in the sand.
25 packages of cocaine in all were found on a Florida Panhandle beach. The drugs were confiscated and logged into evidence by the Walton County Sheriff’s Office.
All 25 bricks were marked with the image of the Looney Tunes cartoon character Yosemite Sam. Great horny toads!
“While enjoying our beautiful beaches, if you come across any square groupers, PLEASE call us immediately and DO NOT touch suspicious packages,” the Walton County Sheriff’s Office wrote on Facebook. “The contents could be extremely harmful.”
Walton County Sheriff's Office
Just two days earlier, in Baldwin County, Alabama, which butts up against the Florida panhandle, the Sheriff’s Office there was called to the the Fort Morgan Peninsula for another cocaine discovery. Upon arriving at the scene, the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office’s Coastal Enforcement Unit found 50 individually wrapped kilos of cocaine weighing approximately 110 pounds washed up on the beach.
After transporting the drugs to the Investigations Command for further analysis, the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office contacted Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations, who took over investigating the discovery of the drugs.
Baldwin County Sheriff's Office
“It is not uncommon for additional bundles of illicit contraband to surface, and Sheriff Lowery asks the community to report any bundles immediately to local law enforcement,” the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office wrote on Facebook. “We ask the public not to open bundles or packages, as they could contain hazardous chemicals or dangerous drugs. The BCSO would like to thank the caller for reporting this bundle so that law enforcement could begin an investigation into the source of the drugs.”
Baldwin County Sheriff's Office
In the state of Florida, so much cocaine washes up on beaches that two years ago Discovery’s “Shark Week” did an episode devoted to how it has affected the shark population.