From RCIPS: Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 3:49 PM

Just after 4:00pm, Saturday 11 April 2015, a bag containing twenty three packages of compressed cocaine was recovered on the beach, washed up, off Austin Conolly Drive, East End.

Residents walking the beach, saw the suspicious packages and immediately called the police. RCIPS estimates the street value of the recovered drugs at approximately CI $350,000.

According to a spokesperson from RCIPS, Drugs and Serious Crime Task Force, ‘It is not unusual to see drugs wash ashore in the Cayman Islands from time to time, the North West Caribbean is an area known for drug trafficking and much credit is given to the residents who reported finding these package’.

The illegal drugs are scheduled for destruction.