$2 Million In Cocaine Washes Up On Florida Beach

JUPITER ISLAND, FL — Somewhere in Florida, there’s a smuggler trying to explain the loss of $2 million in cocaine to what is very likely an angry drug dealer.

It seems a rather sizeable shipment of cocaine was recovered by Martin County Sheriff’s deputies earlier this week after it washed up on shore near Jupiter Island. Whether the shipment fell overboard or was thrown off in an attempt to evade law enforcement remains a mystery. What is clear, however, is that all 25 kilos of the white powdery stuff is now out of circulation. The find has an estimated wholesale value of $600,000, the sheriff’s office reported and a street value of an estimated $2 million.

The big beach find comes on the heels of a two-day, multi-agency operation targeting drug traffickers in South Florida, the sheriff’s office reported.

“Two days prior to the cocaine washing up, Martin County Sheriff's Special Investigations detectives along with detectives from St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office, and the DEA wrapped up a two-day long interstate drug operation, yielding an unbelievable amount of narcotics, including cocaine, heroin, hash oil, methadone, diazepam, flakka, morphine, amphetamine and alprazolam,” the sheriff’s office wrote on its Facebook page. “Eighty people were arrested. Thirty-four of those were felony arrests.”

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It’s not entirely uncommon for drugs to wash up on Florida beaches, but this week’s 25-kilo haul was a little larger than most. Last April, deputies in Okaloosa County found 21 kilos of coke on a beach in Destin. Back in 2014, Volusia County deputies reeled in 20 kilos of cocaine on a beach and then found 20 pounds of marijuana on another beach the very next day.

Drugs aren’t the only things that wash up on Florida shores though. Last December, beach goers in the Ft. Pierce area were treated to free Ramen noodles, coffee and other odd items when a cargo ship lost 25 containers in the water between Cape Canaveral and Palm Beach.

As for the Martin County’s 25 kilos, the owner, not surpringly, hasn’t stepped forward to make a claim.

Photos courtesy of the Martin County Sheriff’s Office