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Date Published: 27/07/2021
ARCHIVED - La Manga beachgoer finds several pieces of hashish washed up on the shore
The man handed the hashish over to lifeguards which he found while walking along the La Manga beach
A surprised beachgoer stumbled across several large lumps of hashish while taking a stroll on Monday afternoon, July 16 along the La Ensenada del Esparto in La Manga. The drugs, which resemble rocks or large stones, were handed over to the lifeguards’ post on the beach, who then notified the Local Police of San Javier.
Police sources later confirmed that the narcotics weighed 28, 44 and 68 grams, and most likely washed ashore from a larger bale of drugs offshore, as reported by Spanish language media La Verdad.
Hashish resin for bulk transport is usually packed in blocks, which in turn, are packed into bales, or pillows, wrapped in plastic and then hessian. Drug traffickers number each bale when it is being loaded onto vessels for transportation, usually from the African coast into Spain via sea. It is normal for large quantities of drugs to be transported in this way and customs routinely intercept hauls of several tons aboard various vessels en-route to Spain.
It is also common for those transporting hashish to jettison their cargo if they are on the point of being intercepted by the coastguard or police and every year dozens of bales wash up on Spanish beaches along the coastline as a result of this practise.
Although the drug dealers will often try to retrieve their product using divers at a later date, bales are inevitably lost and it is highly likely that these pieces come from one of these "lost" bales.
The image below came from San Javier police six years ago and shows a full bale which washed up on a La Manga beach.
Images: Policia Local San Javier
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