Cocaine washing up in Cornwall...
It's not nearly as exotic, but if you don't think you can make it to Bluefields, Nicaragua, you may want to try Cornwall:
Frank Partridge is partial to a spot of beachcombing. He likes to pop down to Pentreath Beach on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall and find out what odds and ends have been washed in by the tide.
But rather than the usual hunks of weather-beaten wood and pieces of broken lobster pot, Partridge's latest expedition yielded a rather more valuable haul - a package of cocaine with a street value of more than £1m. As a law-abiding citizen - and clerk of the local parish council - Partridge knew he had to had to prevent the drugs from falling into the wrong hands. "I thought if I didn't take it, someone who might not go to the police would." So he dragged the 25kg (55lb) package off the beach and rolled it home in a wheelbarrow.
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On a related note, a few years ago in Seattle we were at the beach when we found 8-10 little zip-lock backs of brownish powder floating around in the tide. I assumed it was someone's $20 bags of H they had to dump, but I did not test them. I think the gulls were fighting over one package. My kids and I buried a couple. Never figured out where they could have come from. Most people walked by them on the beach without looking twice.
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