We imagine there are some confused drug dealers right now , after more than a dozen brick of cocaine launder up on Florida ’s beach during the storms on Tuesday .

Hurricane Dorian   – which was upgraded toa family 3 stormon Wednesday   – remove the Sunshine State earlier this calendar week , bringing with it heavy rain and potent winds of up to 110 kilometer ( 70 air mile ) per hour , Accuweatherreports   –   as well as a bumper crop of narcotic .

According to local jurisprudence enforcement , there have been at least two report of cocaine being wash ashore in the backwash of the hurricane , the first in Melbourne ’s Paradise Beach Park .

At 8 am local sentence , an policeman on metrical foot patrol was informed of a suspicious package by a beachgoer . Testing later support the sum was cocaine and police now design to dispose of the kilo , a interpreter has read .

Then , further north , in Cocoa Beach , officers were alerted to an abandoned duffel grip that had been beach in the storms . Inside the bag , law enforcement found 15 brick of cocaine , which have now been hand to the United States Custom and Border Protection .

It ’s a great catch   – Sergeant Manny Hernandez toldNBC News , 1 kilo ( 2.2 pounds ) can fetch   an estimated   $ 20,000 to $ 30,000 in the Orlando area , so no doubt someone out there is pretty miff .

It ’s not the first time large quantities of drug have been rule abandoned on the shore . In November 2017 , an estimated 23 kilograms ( 50 pounds ) of cocaine was found just to the south of Melbourne Beach and in October 1996 , seven Bale of marijuana were picked up in Cocoa Beach , Satellite Beach , and Indian River County .

And asFlorida Todayreports , some pretty unusual things have   been found ashore over the eld as well . That admit vacuum - varnish plurality of Cafe Bustelo coffee berry anda red mangrove tree , which has since become a local landmark in Cape Canaveral , Florida .

During Hurricane Irma , beachgoers found a beach sailboat containing no human rider but a part clothed and completely bald mannequin .