Cocaine Worth Nearly $2 Million Washes up at Jeffreys Bay
On Wednesday, cocaine with an estimated street value of R20 million (AUD $1.75 million) washed up at Supertubes, Jeffrey's Bay.
The consignment was found by passers-by while walking their dog on the beach around 5:30am.
Upon opening the package, local police found several compressed bricks of pure white cocaine, weighing 46kg. The bricks were contained in a thick black plastic bag sealed on top to prevent contact with water. This was then tied to an empty plastic container to keep it afloat.
Each brick had a picture of Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo on it. Gallardo, who is more commonly known as El Jefe de Jefes ('The Boss of Bosses'), is a convicted Mexican drug lord and ran the Guadalajara Cartel in the 1970s.
The suspected drugs were seized for forensic examination.
Online community publication St Francis Today says the local constabulary "have been working working around the clock – often without sleep – to solve this one."
Comments
Solid lines coming into Jeffreys Bay...
Excellent
Congrats, you win Sub-Editor of the Day.
Classic.
; ) gold mate.
Did they provide a blow-by-blow account?
Working without sleep!
Yep sure they have. Haha...
Haha.
What a waste. ) :
F*ck Id turn $2M into ~ 450k pretty quick
and talking about making stuff disappear I used to do a magic trick with Pot and Cocaine but the audience soon figured out it was just smoke and mirrors
haha, that's a good one!
Like to know if el jefes is all washed-up after this bust.
At this stage Benwaa has the cigar.
A case of high line and low line meeting at the shore line.
Large quantities of cocaine detected in surf spot which claims to be the most fascinating, interesting and best looking wave in the world.
Ha Ha, Best call here.
Where there are sharks there is coke.
High lines at Speedieballs.
Heard forecast expecting snow this Christmas in South Africa... La Nina???.
Dad joke fail ... Ha
Fkn hell I’ve just had to go buy a bag after all these comments
Enjoy the evening mate, good night for it
well it is the festive season, cheers
Haha, one of the riskiest thoughts that can ever pop into your head on a friday arvo with no waves, some expendable coin and a couple downed cold ones.
That certainly gets the gong for best attention-grabbing headline of the year.
I’m pretty sure they’ve been there for years. Pottz talks about the bricks at the end section of supers all the time.
I rarely find cocaine jokes funny.
But occasionally , a one liner makes me snort.
I don’t even like it, I just like the smell of it
haha, more comedy gold!
Those famous J-Bay devil dandruff winds
Might be the section that joe turpel keeps referring to as “ the bricks” ….
Bloody Dog Walkers.
I just watched a great documentary on cocaine...
I think I'm going to watch all my documentaries this way now.
Best comment on thread.... ;)
yesssssssss
Personally, had pleasant experiences on the gear.
From a distance, seen many a great man, families and lives pulled apart by that shit. Sorry to be the party pooper but i'd be wary of crew talking it up. Go surf. Stay clean. Fuck that shit.
Good point BD.
Cocaine is a never a solution .
Unless it's dissolved in water.
fair play TS
We all know it's not all it's cracked up to be.
underrated comment :)
Yesssss. Epic
Haha!
Same could be said for alcohol bd, if anyone decides to put any substance in their body you’ve gotta know when to pull the pin and have a break.
Don’t know anyone who has become addicted to coke personally, ice on the other hand… that’s hideous stuff
Yep, can't argue with that either Goofyfoot.
Have been exposed to alot of friends and work colleagues getting rinsed by it, especially in my Byron/Goldy days. Quite a prolific scene up there. Sad when you see people lose their businesses, marriages....lives.
Chasing bricks to build your home used to be a land based activity.
We could chat for days about this
Imagine the scene if it washed up there in the middle of the comp !! The crowd tearing it open and diving into it with straws out their noses like a swarm of dope fiend mozzies. On top of too many red bulls Fil & Italo twitchy enough already would be doing 720's all down the line.
Hi..like a couple of others here I don't find Cocaine-use or any other drug deemed 'illicit' to be an amusing subject although paradoxically a couple of the comments were cleverly amusing. Pot arrived in quantum around the early days of Farrelly and Twizzle, that's what 50 odd years ago...Some girls would give a blow-job out back of the Canopus room for a joint. Some decades later I indirectly employed some Kings Coss detectives in a large security force for a models' 'rave' party up off William Street..I was laqter much angered...and disappointed...to find some models were giving blowies to some of the detectives working for me in exchange for drugs supplied by those police .
Of the dozen or so mates I had down Nth Steyne or met more often at the Brighton all but one were dead owing to pot or heroin use by the time I was 23. Later 3 girls I knew who were suppliers were murdered, over drug money. With USA and Israel as two of the major hypocrites as profoundly involved with 'drug lords'...as publicly noted in Reagnas efforts to get rid of Carter for example and therecent 'president' of the USA being a cocaine and valium addiction the future isn't rosy. USA's CIA post WW11 devsed LSD and used it in 'experimental' assassinations and on unsuspecting convicts. With police and customs involvement 'one wonders'.
The bag found tethered to a flaot is a common method iof collection into the world's most prolici 'per-capita' user of Cocaine and perhaps ICE as well as grog....and for every ton of Cocaine or Kilo of Metha's chem's it was calculated (somehow) that 9 times that gets in and used...
Jailing people is a high risk way of 'enabling them to have a useful life afterwards'...but what else for dealers and manufacturers and financiers?...one way helicopter trip?...feed to sharks....public whipping?...whatever extreme solution is undertaken will see psychopathic or sociopathic reactivity as seen in the 'underworld' and the bikie gangs which are, unfortunately, known to be major crime syndicates yet allowed to exit,
I worked as voluntay for some 18 months at Odyssey House Minto...seeing more of the devastation to users and their families. None of it is amusing and none is cured by 'liberalising' drug use. On the other hand jail is harrdly a solution either...When freedom becomes licence morality becomes a casualty. The pain is excruciating of watching, so loved a son or daughter destroying themselves on what they think they need to stay alive. or 'feel good' The family often enough sent broke by the addfict's theft and emotionally broken by seeing their child sent to jail. 'Strong love' isn't much of a reknowned solution....it's a desperation move but users see every kindness as an effort to manipulate them... giving .more excuses for continuing same or more usage. 'Partying' today means 'cocaine-use tolerance'...another word signifying 'inocence lost'...
Getting back to the prompt...I worked a while as a specialist P-I...essentially major fraud, arson and explosives....but other 'specialist' matters also from time to time. Then I found my employer (ex detective) was a crook and, having made my plaint, walked-out. At that time for a lot or cash buying a 'share in the business' he/they were protecting the paedophile homosexual who invested in the business ...An intelligent man up top of Telstra, they 'sanitised' him, changed his appearance, fitted him with spectacles and so on... got rid of any photos he had with a child...even in the backround... and indoctinating and harangued his victims that they were at fault....they wre the criminals...just after money from this innocent man......they were young criminals who set him up....all nonsense, but it worked.
That was 1988-89...even then our own and ex-PD files held records of the 'employees' tossing sacks and boxes of drugs overboard 'mid ocean' when getting informed they were going be busteds ('transporting vessels to Australia or yachts bought for the job coming back on a run from China, Vanuatu, USA)....
Others when the Navy vessel or police were in sight...just scuttled or burned the vessel vessel...so much money is involved on the successful runs that sinking a $400,000-$800,000 vessel was insignificant...
You who are users of Cocaine and other illicit drugs finance in luxury these 'vermin'.sociopaths. One can make a similar accuation of the 'prescription drug' providrs, but there a GP is identified and responsible for his actions and today the drug manufacturerers have been 'canonised' owing to the Covid vaccines.
Some deliveries, like the packet in the photos, are later collected or washed up however those getting through find plenty of easy-conscience types, now days with encryption on mobiles willing to use any form of water vessel/vehicle to do the pick-up. The Australian market is so big that losses of $millions are just 'collateral damage'....The financiers are made made filthy rich by the worker-ants who 'must have' their drugs....or who bask in that b/s of 'recreational drug user'. None of it amuses me. To stop it one has to do a lot more than just 'make a dent'
Well, that was an unexpectedly great read for a Saturday morning.
Yes great read.
Tony, amazing post. It's like another world hidden in plain view. Glad I turned away when exposed to it, and went surfing. 30 years later, a good choice.
Unreal read Tom. Thanks for sharing!
Back in 1988 the head of the South Aust drug squad was pinged for selling the drugs his squad had confiscated from busts.
https://adelaideaz.com/articles/drugs-squad-chief-and-face-of-south-aust...
I worked in Forensic doing drug analysis for the cops at the time.
We had to account for everything we analysed down to the 0.01g.
Once the drugs were given back to the cops it was party time.
Ah yes, the one and only Barry Moyse, also immortalised in song by the Bearded Clams.
Up the mighty Clams!! One of Adelaide's finest. Would love to get a hold of some of their stuff now but can't find anything online. Was lucky enough to play a few shows with them at The Crown back in the day. yew!
BeardedClams! Well overated. Their best song was a cover which they probably never aknowledged.
Just an opinion.
Only realised a few years ago that the Clowns' best song was a Husker Du cover.
And their whole schtik was lifted from Mr Bungle.
Apart from the make-up.
All musical opinions to one side, they were a great bunch of blokes and unreal supporters of new local bands. You'd always see a couple of 'em standing in the front row, getting right into the bands that played first or second, and that helped to break the ice and bring people away from the bar and into the venue.
fwiw best Adelaide band in my opinion was The Price of Silence....and Keeth. The Numbskulls for pure high energy and tasty riffs.
You are right there Ben.
I do rememberthat about those guys.
Sorry for being a music snob.
Dunno if it’s Diane your talking about but FMUTA Diane is a rippa song!!
In defense of the Kings X night clubs back in the 80's, I honestly can't remember seeing any drug taking at all! or Ketches fresh off the Pacific Ocean moored up around the corner from the Spit Bridge in Middle Harbour.
Great post and read, thanks Tony.
I missed much mispelling...I have almost paralysingly bad carpel-tunnel in both hands so typing is painful (so is reading me I suppose..chuckles...) butas well I'm just tired!!
The Sport of Kings, the Devil’s Dust, and colourful Sydney identities.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-16/how-cocaine-kingpin-damion-flower...
i remember the bricks washing up on the NW WA coast -EARLY90S, boats, planes and some Euros getting busted. I was approached by a lady who "worked in real estate" and asked me if i could take a suitcase back to Perth and that some friends could pick it up from my mums place !! -
Didn't one of the cartels have it's own submarine?
Hi...whilst there are claims made in mediaq that a thousand subs have been built by the'lords' aroundf 30-40 are detected each year ...again on media advice. One of the variant styles (like covid mutation is ssential to survive aand 'keep ahead') are "winged torpedo-like tubes" fixed to the underside of large ships....bit like the remora fish that attach themselves to sharks,
A decent sub might cost $100M ...covered in profit in a single trip. Some 'subs' are towed and then can be submerged by rermote control and another method is to drop-off packages as in the Swellnet photo as GPS-equipped cargo , hanging off a 'buoy', the GPS guiding the local couriers to the spot. for pickup, I've never come to terms with why ordinary people, in the main, want to pay out their hard earned, steal from family and others to keep in extraordinary luxury the people who use them
for income....ven down to so called (as they are not) 'rock bands, hip hoppers, rappers and other 'what not' ..why not use your money to improve your own life, not theirs...I suppose when commercial and even councils put on Christmas shows for adults and children at which female performers dress sexually enticingly....flashing the delectable bits of bod....to advertise themsaelves using a now ...or tradtionally 'christian' celebration which is geared to modesty....why not dress modestly?....I wonder if anyone who read it wasa surprised by this 18 December media report...how "totally 'F^%$&&^% ed are they???....I realise they are pomm's ...or claim that they are ...but even they surely have some modicum of common sense...yes...? ...what's that..??...."NO" ...oh...ok! ok! gotcha.
"Animal rights activists have vowed to protest a London nativity play because the Magi will be riding a camel and Mary a donkey.. Hundreds of “distressed” campaigners have called for Chingford’s Nativity Procession to be banned.
I remember a close freind wondered off after a hard week with a partner to do himself in which we werent aware of at the time ...Anyway he came back and told us what he was upto and before he could jump of the cliff he spotted a 44 gallon drum jammed in to a crevice . This was around 1993 or 4 when a lot of 44 gallon drums where washing up on beaches on the nrth QLD coast packed with compressed buds ...Well we went back immediately with drum opening implements and where bitterely disapointed to find fertiliser ...So we asked are mate if he still wanted to jump of the cliff and he said nah lets have a beer ill jump of a cliff some other time ..We where young enough to think all this was rather humourous ...We where close mates for 30 yrs and over the last 5 went different ways and lost touch so i was suprised to hear from his brother ..He hadnt jumped of a cliff but stepped of a chair with a rope around his neck ....He was long term recreational drug user ..
I wonder whether it was fertiliser or an ammonia recoverable substance....
I worked in Forensic doing drug analysis in the 80s & 90s, and also was playing in bands at the time.
One gig we did was for a local bikie club in country South Oz.
A band mate opened his big mouth to someone in the club about my occupation, and during a break one of the head honchos took me aside and offered me a job as a drug cook.
The amount of money I would be paid was eye watering, way more than what I was earning at the time.
This made me real nervous - there was no way I was going to do this, but what would happen if I refused?
I regretfully declined the offer and luckily the guy was cool about it, offered me another beer, and nothing more was said.
No Breaking Bad for me.
Bloody hell.
You weren't playing at the Pondie festival? Had me confused for years when could never find any sign of the show in the Innes National Park.
A few of the old BBR wouldn’t have looked out of place at Ponde or Pondie
Ha ha, not Ponde - the show was in Callington.
A few months later we ended up in a bikie clubhouse after a show in Pt Lincoln.
I told my bandmates to STFU about my job.
A guy I went to Uni with was a drug cook and ended up doing a reasonably lengthy stint in jail.
Jeezus, ha.
Police seize 45kg of Cocaine. Merry Christmas. Off-face-er
I have witnessed people go down to coke. As well as many other vices. Thanks for the insights Tony and johpg ,,, and I certainly don't want to diminish the effects and consequences that any addictive toxic drug can have on your life , body and or mind.
Drugs are bad ..mmkay. period.
For the record , I've only used coke twice,,,
once for 2 years and once for 5 years...(joking)
The J-Bay open, sponsored by Coke.
As far as I can work out, decriminalising and controlling illicit substances would be a positive thing.
Well Andy, I guess you have observed the failure of the current system.
The approach you advocate would have the following affects:
1. Remove millions of $ of income from criminals, (that engenders a strain cool factor in some impressionable youth)
2. Which would reduce / eliminate their financial resources used to corrupt police, the judiciary
3. Reduce the income of lawyers, the burden upon the courts, and the costs thereof
4. Enable the shrinking of the size of the police force (much less crime, not just users & suppliers, but the flow on violence, turf wars etc), and end a b.s. justification for the militarisation of the police force.
5. Decrease insurance premiums as your house is less likely to be burgled ( not as big a deal as it perhaps was)
6. Increase community safety, and the perception of safety.
7. End the road side RDT witch hunt that destroys pot users lives, often for historical use, not driving ability impairment .
8. Enable a “ harm minimisation “ approach. Imagine a shed in the industrial area staffed by a health care worker in a lab coat “ Mr Fiend, back so soon?” (Kids and the wider community would increasingly see the frequent customers of such places correctly as people needing help)
9. Recognise the correct relationship between citizens and government.
It is not up to government to grant us our freedoms, we are born with them. We have allowed government to become too controlling of our everyday lives, and step well outside of their remit, which is to facilitate our lives.
Big brother says, ATM, “whiskey OK, everything else, go to jail”
Yet Humans have looked for a buzz in all (most?) cultures, right through history. It is in us, well many of us.
Example: The pyramid builders workers towns centred around their pubs.
Law abiding tax paying adults should decide for themselves how they spend their time, and how, if at all, they take a buzz.
Big brother deciding for us what freedoms he will “allow” us is a very dangerous slippery slope.
What’s “not good for you”, and who decides?
Perhaps ban donuts, too sugary, yeah that sounds reasonable,
how about dangerous, non productive, non ecological activities,
(unfair imposition on the overloaded medical system, selfish ecological profile)…like motorsports, & well how about surfing?
The point is there are costs to both approaches.
Human and financial, but also costs to how we organise ourselves as a people. Who makes decisions, who we punish and how hard.
As the current system of oppression has clearly failed, destroying millions of lives, perhaps another approach is worth a look aka Portugal.
Please remember, coke, ice etc has been invented.
There is no putting the genie (devil?) back in the bottle.
Harm minimisation is not harm eradication.
For the record, I am a non user ( aside from a few beers) but like all of us in this community have seen the harm done, by the sh*t, and by the mans response.
I have also seen LT recreational, even habitual use go on for many decades without obvious repercussions (aside from $ /time wasted, possible LT health issues?)
One blokes opinion.
Cheers brothers
Great contribution. Well considered.
Yep, you have my agreement!
True story.
I had a visit by an 'ASIO' dude at a wharf one day . I had just unloaded and was cleaning down (fnorth coast nsw) .
He was asking around about ships or yachts dumping stuff over the side and if we'd seen any unusual floating 'bouys' . He had "I.D" and a couple of goons in the carpark and to this day I'm not sure if they were legit or not. I was given a card with a phone number but it was just a crimestoppers card and nothing from them (asio D's) themselves. Suss.??
As that floating Armada gets recycled through the system the doggy walkers are going to wake up one morning and think …
WTF was I thinking!!
And this is why i subscribe to Swellnet...an offbeat topic and then the comments section for a laugh
Do you guys mind me using some of your great oneLINERS posted above???
The only white line you need to chase...
Great sound on that album, Tube Shooter. The Horse in good form.
Love the softer version of White Line on the Homegrown album released last year too.
TS, just curious but wondering if you were a long liner ;-)
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haha .. I'll pay that one. .. :)
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54636002
anywho, back to the unscrupulous illegal drug lords