Weekend walker stumbles on £90 million haul of cocaine washed up on Welsh beach

3 October 2022, 11:50

A man in his thirties discovered 30 black packages washed up on a beach, with contents inside which 'looked like pure cocaine'. Picture: Google Maps

By Cameron Kerr

A man in his thirties has told of how he was on a morning stroll along a Welsh beach on Saturday, when he came across £90 million of 'pure cocaine' washed up on shore.

Loading audio...

The unnamed project manager was walking along Tan-y-Bwlch beach, near Abberstwyth, when he came across the 30 black packages.

The packages were tied to empty jerry cans with rope to keep the Class A drugs afloat at sea.

The walker told the Mail on Sunday: “I was out for my early morning walk when I saw something on the beach.

“I was intrigued and walked up to it and knew what it was almost straight away. An old lady called the police and they came around half an hour later.

“They cut open a bag and it looked like pure cocaine. They dragged it off the beach and took it away.”

A spokeswoman for Dyfed-Powys Police said: “We are investigating the discovery of a significant quantity of what is thought to be cocaine, spotted along the Ceredigion coast this weekend.

Local police said enquiries are being undertaken to establish how such a large amount of the Class A drug washed up on the shore, after recent storms. Picture: Google Maps

“Enquiries are being undertaken to establish how such an unusually large amount of the controlled drug came to wash up on the Welsh shore, following recent storms.

“The precise quantity is still being established and at this time no-one has been arrested in relation to this matter.

“Officers have thanked those who found the packages and their sensible actions in reporting the matter immediately.”

The news comes after last month, over a dozen bricks emblazoned with a 'Dior' label washed ashore in the town of Biloxi, which sits on the Gulf of Mexico.

Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics Director Steven Maxwell said of that haul: "There was likely to be a large amount of drugs that either fell off a vessel or they were intentionally dropped off to be picked up by someone else or another group of individuals.”

One man was arrested for allegedly trying to remove one of the packages.