A man walking on a Welsh beach claims he found around 30 black bin bags suspected of containing several kilos of Class A drugs. The man, who does not wish to be named, spotted the bags on Tan-y-Bwlch beach, south of Aberystwyth in Ceredigion on Saturday morning.
When he got closer he found approximately 30 black bags all tied together with rope. Empty plastic jugs were interspersed along the bags, presumably to help the bags to float, WalesOnline reports.
Police were called to the beach and when one of the bags was cut open the walker said he saw a substance which looked like white powder inside.
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The man said: “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.”
The exact contents of the bags, and how much the haul, if it is drugs, could potentially be worth, has not been confirmed, but Dyfed-Powys Police has been asked to comment after it removed the items from the beach on Saturday. If the discovery is connected to Class A drugs, it would not be the first time in recent memory that such a find has been made on a British beach.
In May last year, nearly a tonne of cocaine washed up on beaches near Hastings and Newhaven in East Sussex. On that occasion, members of the public spotted bags bobbing in the sea before alerting police, who took them away for testing. Samples taken from the bags later tested positive for cocaine.
Regarding that find, a National Crime Agency branch commander said: “This is a significant amount of class A drugs which we think originated in South America, but we are keeping an open mind about how the drugs washed up here and where the end destination might have been. Clearly though, losing a consignment of this size will represent a significant hit to the criminal networks involved.”
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