Massive amount of cocaine washes up on Texas beach ... again

Credit: Courtesy / Galveston Police Department

Authorities discovered a whopping 27 bricks of cocaine on the Texas Coast Tuesday, according to a report from the Galveston County Daily News.

If that sounds familiar, yes, it keeps happening.

Police recovered the nose candy on Galveston’s West End beach around 9:12 a.m. after reports that suspicious packages had washed up onshore.

Side note: who’s the narc?

If you’re a party animal, this is where we break your heart: Police said they transported the packages to the Galveston County Justice Center to be destroyed, per department policy.

Galveston cops also said department testing confirmed the packages contained cocaine, but they wouldn’t reveal the weight or dollar value of the stash.

Such a discovery is roughly a once-a-year occurrence along the Texas Coast. Last April, a separate passel of cocaine packages washed up on Galveston’s nearby Jamaica Beach.

Given that it was the Easter weekend, Galveston Police joked on Facebook that they were “not finding Easter eggs on Easter Sunday, but instead packages of cocaine.”

In 2021, police recovered 29 packages containing marijuana and cocaine on beaches ranging from High Island to Stewart Beach throughout the year.

High Island indeed.

Such occurrences are often the result of cartel boats in the Gulf of Mexico dumping cargo to hastily reduce the amount of evidence during a raid, according to the Houston Chronicle.

While this week’s discovery sounds like a big one, it’s not the most cocaine recovered at one time from a Texas beach.

That distinction goes to the 66 pounds of cocaine — or approximately 30 bricks — that washed up west of Galveston’s 33rd Street jetty in May 2015. Bearing the Gulf Cartel’s distinctive dolphin stamp, those drugs had a reported street value of over $3.5 million.

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