GALVESTON, Texas — On Monday, May 25th 2015, the Galveston Police Department received a call from the Galveston Island Beach Patrol stating that a suspicious package had washed ashore just west of the 33rd St jetty. As officers arrived on location they quickly realized that the item was packaged in the manner most cartels use to package their narcotics.
Investigators with the Galveston Police Vice & Narcotics Division responded to the beach and verified that they package was in fact cocaine.
After the narcotics were collected and tested, narcotics investigators totaled the weight of 30 individually wrapped packages at over 66 lbs. The individually wrapped “Kilos” were all stamped and stickered with a dolphin logo, indicative of the narcotics belonging to the Gulf Cartel.
The bulk value of this cocaine has been estimated at $855,000; however, if broken down and sold on the street level its value is over $3.5 million.
This is the sixth instance of narcotics washing ashore in Galveston this week, and the second instance of cocaine.
