High Seas: 7,500 pounds of pot found floating off So. Calif. coast

(CBS) DANA POINT, Calif. - Authorities confiscated 160 bales of marijuana totaling over 7,500 pounds, in the ocean about 15 miles off the coast of Southern California on Sunday afternoon, CBS Los Angeles reports.

According to a statement released by U.S. Border Patrol Agent Supervisor Michael Jimenez, maritime law enforcement authorities received a tip around noon about suspicious bales floating off the coast of Orange County, near Dana Point.

Orange County police recruited several boats from the Coast Guard and Border Patrol to retrieve the narcotics. Border Patrol agents said the marijuana has a street value of $3.6 million.

It's unclear who dumped the pot. Jiminez said the narcotics were turned over to U.S. Border Patrol.