Cocaine bricks with 5kg of the drug wash up on Freshwater and Curl Curl beaches

Lifeguards have located 5kg worth of cocaine at two beaches in Sydney’s north. It is the latest in a long line of “bricks” washing ashore along the NSW coastline.

More blocks of cocaine have washed up on NSW beaches, with 5kg of the drug found by lifeguards in Sydney’s north on Monday.

Police were contacted about 7.30am on Monday when beachgoers told lifeguards that there were two “bricks’’ of cocaine found at Freshwater beach and another three at nearby Curl Curl beach.

The cocaine will now be sent to be tested but is believed to be part of a shipment which has been washing up bit by bit on beaches around the east coast since last December.

Police were first alerted to the wayward cocaine on December 22, when 39kg was found at Magenta Beach near The Central Coast.

Some of the washed up cocaine. Photo: NSW Police / Supplied

Since then cocaine bricks’ in various quantities have been washing up on beaches on the north coast, Bondi and south coast.

Until today, the most recent discovery was made on Monday March 11 at Nambucca Heads on the Mid North Coast, where a 1kg block of cocaine was found washed ashore.

In January, a marine expert was brought in by NSW Police to help detectives identify just how long the bricks of cocaine that washed up on beaches along the coast may have been in the ocean.

The discovery last year led police to warn people not to touch barnacle-encrusted packages (pictured) but call Triple Zero (000) after seven washed up on beaches at Magenta, Blacksmiths, Avoca, and Manly in a week.

A total of 213kg of cocaine had been collected on the shore between Sydney and Newcastle, with almost 90 kilograms of that washing up since the start of the New Year.

Police sources said that with many of the bricks of cocaine being covered in barnacles, an expert had been contracted to assist the State Crime Command’s Organised Crime Squad in determining how long the cocaine had been in the water – which would in turn help them narrow down what shipment the drugs may belong to.

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