The US, despite a complete ban of many drugs, is the largest consumer of cocaine. Note, this drug is considered to be one of the most expensive on the black market, the cost of which is estimated at $ 80-100 per gram.
And in the town of Melbourne beach, South Florida, about 50 pounds of cocaine (23 kg) in an unknown way was just on the ocean.
Friday, November 10, local woman was walking along the beach and noticed a suspicious package, which, as it turned out, was cocaine.
The Sheriff’s office the Brevard County announced that packages with the drug washed up on the same beach where earlier hurricane Irma came ashore sailboat.
A special research unit in conjunction with the Sheriff’s office confiscated the drugs. They began the investigation of «wet» cocaine, noting that in recent years has not been recorded of such cases.
