Packages of cocaine wash up on Texas beach after ship is raided, officials say

Local officials said Texas police had found multiple package cocaine on the banks of Jamaica Beach, a small town in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, local officials said.

Jamaica Beach officials said on social media that local officers and members of the Galvaston police department discovered the packages on the coast. Galvaston Jamaica Beach is the boundary.

The police did not say how much cocaine was found on the shore or the estimated value of it.

Jamaica Beach City said in a statement on social media, “It looks like a ship was offshore and the crew began to throw a large amount of overboard and washed it on the coastline.”

Show a package of cocaine labeled “7-P” on the algae on the shore in the picture. In the other picture, two officers on the beach showed, a drug containing a drug.

Anyone who spots more packages should contact their Jamaica Beach Police Department, the city said.

This is not the first time that illegal drugs on the US beach were washed away. The Florida keys have been a special hotspot.

Tourist Received a package In August 2024, with 16 bricks of suspicious cocaine on the Florida keys. Early that month, Hurricane Debbie Believe in 25 packages of cocaine According to authorities, the Florida keys are on the beach. The weight of the packages is about 70 pounds and its value was more than $ 10 million, police said at the time. In June 2024, Botters on the shore of the Florida keys 65 pounds of cocaine have been found Floating in the sea, after a few weeks Divers have been found About 55 pounds of cocaine is about 100 feet of water under the key to the west.

Also in June 2024, about 55 pounds of cocaine were washed away on the coast Dawfin IslandOn the coast of Alabama.

Researchers with the United Nations have assumed that about 90% of cocaine was consumed in North America ColombiaThe Smugglers often try to smuggle illegal substances on the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean with speed boats and semi-drainable ship nicknames “Narco“Cocaine can be thrown into the water to avoid identification from law enforcement or other smugglers, but the currents or storm packages can be carried on the shore.