Suspected cocaine worth $450,000 washes up on Dauphin Island
Packages of suspected cocaine with a street value of $450,000 have washed up on Dauphin Island.
The Mobile County Sheriff’s Office says that small bundles, weighing a total of 55 pounds, were discovered Thursday on the west side of Dauphin Island.
The sheriff’s office said the Dauphin Island Police Department contacted them after the possible drugs washed up on the shore. Detectives searched the beach for additional packages, but they did not find any.
Packages of suspected cocaine that washed up on Dauphin Island – Photo from Mobile County Sheriff’s Office
CBS News reports the discovery came just one day after scuba divers exploring the waters off Key West, Florida, also found 55 pounds of suspected cocaine. The packages were located about 100 feet underwater in the Atlantic Ocean, officials said. The stash was turned over to the U.S. Border Patrol.
Also last week, the U.S. Coast Guard said it offloaded more than 4,800 pounds of cocaine worth over $63 million at a port in Florida after Coast Guard officers fired at and sank a speedboat suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea.
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