Cocaine packages with a combined street value of nearly £5m found floating in waters off the Welsh coast
Cocaine packages with a combined street value of nearly £5m found floating in waters off the Welsh coast are linked to major international drug gangs, customs officials said last night.It was confirmed yesterday that a single package found floating near St Davids three weeks ago by a couple celebrating their 42nd wedding anniversary contained 30kg of the Class A drug.Its origins are potentially so serious that the investigation has now been taken over by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca). It is the latest in a series of sinister packages mysteriously found floating off Wales’ coastline or washed up on its beaches, which are thought to be on their way to organised crime gangs in London and Liverpool from Colombia.In February, two similarly sized shipments were washed up, one on a beach in Meirionedd and another at Tywyn, in southern Gwynedd.In the same month, more than £6m of cocaine was discovered in separate finds on Cornwall’s beaches. Some packs had the word “Colombia” writt...