Right To The Point....Found $4,260.00 Worth Of Cocaine + An Old Compact + Loot

[John-Edmonton]

A different day it was.....Picked up my buddy Scott and headed to one of our favorite wooded areas, which sometimes gives up some old coins and relics. I got some coins (oldest 1950 penny), a nice intact old compact and a bag of white powder wrapped in a camo rag, stashed between two saplings beside a log with an empty flattened emptied 2 liter Coke bottle stuffed underneath the log. Ha!......I know tell tale markers of hidden treasures near-by. That bottle wasn't there because of pure laziness on someones part, but there as a marker to locate the nearby treasure wrapped up for easy locating. I wish that I could be a fly on the tree when that person who stashed it discovers that it is missing!

Here is that older compact. There are no commercial stampings on it. The area we hunted dates back to the turn of the century. I have no idea as to how old it was.

Here is the white Edmonton snow, gold or whatever you want to call it. I did a Google search to see what cocaine is selling for. It of course varies, as to what part of the world you live in. In North America, cocaine sells for about $80.00 a gram to about $140.00 a gram. I rounded it off to about $100.00 a gram for simplicity. I hunted for a couple of more hours, and I must say I was a little nervous about getting busted. How do you convince a Police Officer that ....well....."I Found It."


Anyhow, I caught up with Scott, we did a photo-op of our finds, then drove to the nearest Police Station to hand in my valuable stash, getting nada for my efforts. He repackaged it so it could be destroyed, and I asked him to weigh it, which came out to 46.6 grams.


I told him I figured it was worth a a couple of hundred bucks.....he looked at me and replied, it's worth a little more then that! DUH! Dang, another adventurous day metal detecting.

 

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[jamey]

man i didnt know you all did that stuff over there,its such a nice looking place over there.

 

[Oregon Viking]

I hate to ask stupid questions...but I must!
What,,,are you going to do with all that coke?
Test it, make sure whatcha got. rat poison looks a lot like coke.

 

[John-Edmonton]

I hate to ask stupid questions...but I must!
What,,,are you going to do with all that coke?
Test it, make sure whatcha got. rat poison looks a lot like coke.

I mentioned in the post that I turned it in at a Police Station. I enjoy life as it is.....the only Coke I do comes in a bottle.

 

[el padron]

Banner?

 

[DigginOhio]

Wow, great story! You did the right thing getting rid of that ****, but it really makes you wonder about the circumstances. $4,260.00? Someone might be in a world of **** now. I hope they get help.

 

[John-Edmonton]

Banner?

Just a banner.....don't smoke & don't drink.

 

[Sharryn]

Good job John! I would have been too chicken to take it with me. I'd have marked the location on a GPS and told the cops to go look for it themselves. lol

 

[gollum]

John,

If I were you, I wouldn't detect in that area again for a looooooooooooooooooooooong time. Whoever lost that much blow will be very pissed, and ready to take it out on anybody they find in the area.

Mike

 

[Kodiak43351]

Great job getting that off the streets. That was for more than personal use. I would have done same thing and turned it in. I came across some pot plants before and got out of that location and told farmer who turned it in to sheriff dept. he was mad that someone was planting on his property. I will never have to worry about permission to detect on his land as long as he owns it.

 

[ffx2]

Hmmm seems like I read this exact same thread in another forum

 

[Irishgoldhound]

Great story John. I wouldn't go back there for a while either.

 

[cazisme]

I wonder if that means you owe taxes on the amount it was worth?

 

[David in Germany]

You should have left a note, if you are missing something from this location please proceed to xx police station and ask for the lost and found officer.

Personally I would not have moved it but called the police to come and collect it.


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[redcobra8u]

John, If I were you, I wouldn't detect in that area again for a looooooooooooooooooooooong time. Whoever lost that much blow will be very pissed, and ready to take it out on anybody they find in the area. Mike

I agree. Stay away from that area.

 

[Limitool]

Yea I ran into a LOT OF POTS plants in a marsh area on Oct. 1st. in MI. years ago. And I mean a lot of them while tracking a buck deer.

 

[gallileo60]

el padron, that is funny, do you hunt on the same land the Spaniards took from the Indians Seems like someone is always taking something..