Woman Finds $2.1M of Cocaine on Beach Walk

A Texas woman walking on the beach found $2.1 million dollars worth of cocaine, the Houston Chronicle reports. The Galveston beachcomber told police she saw a backpack in the water that ended up containing 16 cocaine bricks weighing about 37 pounds. The cocaine was clearly part of a professional operation—the bricks were marked with bar codes and well-protected from the water. Only four bricks had been damaged.

“There were barnacles growing on the bag so you know it was probably in the water a long time,” a police spokesman said.