Beachcombers found a 10 pound bag of dope on an Alabama seashore better known for its nesting turtles than marijuana smuggling.
'Share The Beach' volunteers counting sea-turtle eggs and newborns this week stumbled upon the innocuous-looking bundle in the surf line and at first thought it was a taped up seat cushion, they said.
But when they closely inspected the watertight package and realized what was actually stashed inside, they called the Orange Beach Police Department to come and take the pot flotsam off their hands.
OBPD spokesman Lieutenant Cliff Roberts said that the street value of the 10 pound bag of dope is estimated to be about $8000 at best, because "it did not look to be very high-grade marijuana."
He has no idea where the parcel originated from, nor who its owners might be. "Your guess is as good as mine," Roberts said. "We'll look at the tides and charts and try to determine how long it has been in the water.”
In the meantime, the bagged brick of dope has been impounded as evidence, and border security notified.
