Beach walkers find $350k of cocaine

| 14/04/2015 | 20 Comments
Cayman News Service

Cocaine washed ashore on Grand Cayman April 2015

(CNS): A couple who were walking along the beach in East End at the weekend stumbled across a significant drugs haul, according to the police. The residents came across a bag containing 23 packages of compressed cocaine, which the RCIPS estimates has a street value of around $350,000. Having spotted the suspicious packages at around 4:00 on Saturday afternoon (11 April) on the shore by Austin Connolly Drive, the vigilant members of the public immediately called the police.

Officers then recovered the drugs, which are believed to have washed up onto the beach. A spokesperson from RCIPS, Drugs and Serious Crime Task Force said, “It is not unusual to see drugs wash ashore in the Cayman Islands from time to time. The northwest Caribbean is an area known for drug trafficking and much credit is given to the residents who reported finding these package.”

Police said the illegal drugs are now scheduled for destruction.

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  1. Anonymous says:

    Good Ole Joey took the fall for a whole lot of crackheads/, crackpots who are running this country and it’s Civil Service. There is too much lunacy In the halls of power recently to not make me think that there is some substance abuse at very high levels. Joey took a lot of secrets to Northward with him and I’m sure he’s doing it easy out there.

  2. Anonymous says:

    A lil line….

  3. northsida says:

    I woulda been living nice, if i had come across that bobo

  4. Just Sayin' says:

    Productivity and billable hours just dropped dramatically at law firms across the jurisdiction.

    • Anonymous says:

      Or perhaps the opposite if they needed help pulling of an all-nighter. Coffee only works so much.

  5. Anonymous says:

    definitely going to hit the streets now.

  6. Anonymous says:

    23 seems a strange number of packets, make you wonder if it was 24….

  7. E. Stenna says:

    This is an opportune time for the media to query RCIPS’ procedures for ensuring the security of such evidence, especially the exact amount discovered, documented, stored and ultimately (hopefully) destroyed.

    I recall observing the trial of a ganja smuggler many years ago who willingly pleaded guilty but was sure to make the judge know that the amount of weed presented as evidence was “not the whole of it – it was more than that”.

    No surprise if there is a large supply of coke on the streets within the next few weeks.

  8. Anonymous says:

    Puss and dog really don’t have the same luck. Why wasn’t I the one to find this??

  9. Anonymous says:

    Why does this sort of thing never happen to me?

  10. Anonymous says:

    Yeah, let’s make sure all 23 are destroyed, and not 16 or 18.

    • Anonymous says:

      I can help get rid of a few of them.

    • Sharkey says:

      Yeah let’s make sure that it’s all destroyed and no one get the benefit from it, and destroy more lives. This find should be destroyed immediately because there’s no reason to hold on to it for evidence. I think that we should demand that this drug find be destroyed today , because the next thing you hear about it , it disappeared .

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