Several packages of cocaine washed up on Dauphin Island this weekend, and Mobile County Sheriffs said it totaled $1.2 million dollars.
It was a pair of beachgoers searching for seashells on the west end who found them and reported to the police. The beachgoers did not want to be named. They tell FOX10 News off-camera they suspected the packages were drugs of some sort and knew not to touch it.“Something like this falling into the wrong hands could have been catastrophic,” said Corporal Lonnie Parsons with MCSO.
With an ATV, MCSO recovered the drugs, labeled “Triton.” They said Homeland Security is now partnering in the investigation. For more insight, FOX10 News’s Lacey Beasley talked to Ed Odom, a retired Alabama state trooper of over 40 years who spent 25 of those in the narcotics division and DEA task force of Mobile.“One, and the most probable I think, is they have convinced themselves that the police are watching them, whether they have seen a Coast Guard helicopter and one go over,” said Odom. “They panic, and they think they are moving in on them, whether they are or not.
Odom added just because it washed up on Dauphin Island does not mean that was the intended destination. It could have floated in from hundreds of miles away. As for “Triton” labeled across the cocaine, Odom suspected that could be related to Triton as in Greek “God of the Sea” and could be a commonly used name.
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