Contrived catalyst... (Spoiler)
I don't understand the aggression of the drug dealers to begin with. So their stuff is stashed at someone's log. Instead of having the two guys who stashed it go retrieve it, they Immediately arrive on site with an army?? Conveniently, for the movie's sake, Aquaman finds the stash at the same time the baddies arrived, thus, justifying the villians' aggressive actions, and kicks off the action sequences.