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Deputies announce mushroom bust [VA]
    #9447334 - 12/16/08 11:01 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

Edinburg man being held without bond
December 16, 2008 - nvdaily.com

EDINBURG -- After at least five years of dealing hallucinogenic mushrooms, according to the Shenandoah County Sheriff's Office, a town man is being held without bail.

Chad Frank Murden, 25, of 4067 Rose Bud Court, was arrested Dec. 9 and charged with manufacturing a controlled substance and obstruction of justice, Maj. Scott Proctor said Monday afternoon.

He said Murden's condominium was searched at about 4 p.m. on Dec. 9. There, investigators with the Northwest Virginia Regional Drug Task Force seized two guns and what are believed to be marijuana and psilocybin mushrooms.

"He had his own video surveillance system to see who came and went inside the residence," Proctor said.

Dozens of items were inventoried in a search warrant evidence log filed in Shenandoah County Circuit Court, including a Remington 12-gauge shotgun, .45-caliber Colt pistol, ammunition, scales, smoking devices, green plant material, mushrooms and packaging material.

Detectives also seized a laptop computer, a Dodge Avenger, a flat-screen TV, a dagger and a High Times magazine, according to the log.

Murden's home was raided after a "cooperating co-conspirator" bought about 100 grams of psilocybin mushrooms from him in the condo, according to an affidavit filed with the search warrant. The cooperating witness told investigators after the drug buy that inside he'd seen a black bag with a pistol in it along with what Murden said was 6 ounces of marijuana, it says.

The informant told investigators that he'd seen Murden with "pounds" of mushrooms for sale on many occasions in the past two months, the affidavit says, and that he had bought about 7 pounds from Murden within the past three months.

The unnamed informant told law-enforcement officers that he'd conspired with Murden for around five years, according to the affidavit.

"During that time, [the informant] has admitted that he has purchased hundreds of pounds of marijuana and over a hundred [pounds] of psilocybin mushrooms from Murden," it says.

Photos released by the Sheriff's Office show several large rubber containers that Proctor said were used to grow mushrooms.

"Each container probably contained a different stage in the growing period of the mushrooms," he said.

Spores were kept in glass jars, Proctor said.

"You will pay anywhere from 100 to 500 [dollars] an ounce," he said.

Law enforcement officials don't often come across illegal mushroom use, Proctor said.

"It just hasn't been a prevalent problem in our area," he said.

Murden is scheduled to appear in Shenandoah County General District Court today.

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Re: Deputies announce mushroom bust [VA] [Re: veggie]
    #9447370 - 12/16/08 11:06 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

"cooperating co-conspirator" = Snitch...Got busted and cut a deal. I cannot stand people who do this shit. If you can't do the time don't do the crime. :mad: Oh and 500 dollars an ounce...WHAT!!!

Edited by dcox420 (12/16/08 11:08 PM)

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Re: Deputies announce mushroom bust [VA] [Re: dcox420]
    #9447451 - 12/16/08 11:18 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

What cracks me up is how they never name the informant, but give enough info about him that anyone who runs with the dude who got busted would be able to surmise who it was. Of course that is if they didn't already figure it out.

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Re: Deputies announce mushroom bust [VA] [Re: veggie]
    #9447492 - 12/16/08 11:26 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

WOW-- not real smrt.  Having dudes over to the house and all that-- what I don't understand is how they can take the dude's TV, it isn't exactly drug paraphernalia right?


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Re: Deputies announce mushroom bust [VA] [Re: Twiztidsage]
    #9447505 - 12/16/08 11:27 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

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Detectives also seized a laptop computer, a Dodge Avenger, a flat-screen TV, a dagger and a High Times magazine, according to the log.




I also like how they seized all this shit too.  Makes me fucking sick.  Although I don't agree with it I can see them taking the laptop for information, and the dagger because it is a weapon.  What I don't understand is why the fuck they would seize the car, the tv, and a god damn magazine.  That is just ridiculous.  :wow:


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Re: Deputies announce mushroom bust [VA] [Re: travelleler]
    #9447515 - 12/16/08 11:28 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

Oops....lol.  I guess you feel the same way I do.


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Re: Deputies announce mushroom bust [VA] [Re: Ogre812]
    #9447858 - 12/17/08 12:27 AM (15 years, 3 months ago)

It's because if you are dealing drugs and have nice things and no real way of showing that you payed for it with legal income then it will become seized.

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Re: Deputies announce mushroom bust [VA] [Re: JMR]
    #9448332 - 12/17/08 03:03 AM (15 years, 3 months ago)

Ill gotten gains of the game...Still bullshit though


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Re: Deputies announce mushroom bust [VA] [Re: dcox420]
    #9448401 - 12/17/08 03:26 AM (15 years, 3 months ago)

>>Spores were kept in glass jars, Proctor said.


lol?

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Re: Deputies announce mushroom bust [VA] [Re: veggie]
    #9448610 - 12/17/08 05:52 AM (15 years, 3 months ago)

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veggie said:
1."Each container probably contained a different stage in the growing period of the mushrooms," he said.

2.Spores were kept in glass jars, Proctor said.

3."You will pay anywhere from 100 to 500 [dollars] an ounce," he said.





1. Each container for a different stage?? These guys stupid? Who transfers a fruiting/colonizing substrate?! Idiot..

2. In glass jars? WTF.. what ever happened to plastic syringes? Cant hide a jar that well.. I should know since I was busted in a car for 2 grams of mary jay recently and it was in a ball canning jar.. :smile:

3. Paying anything over 160-190 around here is rediculouse. I would NEVER pay 500 an oz. Thats a $17.85 a gram.. so.. Thats roughly 60 (on calc.), 50-55 (on a real price break for buying at this price).
  $500 /= oz oh mush... Maybe they're the ones tripping to much on pounds of mushrooms :gethigh:

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Re: Deputies announce mushroom bust [VA] [Re: Ogre812]
    #9448662 - 12/17/08 06:31 AM (15 years, 3 months ago)

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Detectives also seized a laptop computer, a Dodge Avenger, a flat-screen TV, a dagger and a High Times magazine, according to the log.




I also like how they seized all this shit too.  Makes me fucking sick.  Although I don't agree with it I can see them taking the laptop for information, and the dagger because it is a weapon.  What I don't understand is why the fuck they would seize the car, the tv, and a god damn magazine.  That is just ridiculous.  :wow:




If it was Christmas Eve I am sure that the bastards would have taken Santa's milk and cookies as well.


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Re: Deputies announce mushroom bust [VA] [Re: Basement Boy]
    #9448836 - 12/17/08 07:58 AM (15 years, 3 months ago)

Yeah they take all the nice things he has obtained with drug money (money he cant prove where he got).  Sucks his stupid friend who was prolly growing both the pot and shrooms and dealing all in the same house...just stupid.. Thats fucked up after 5 years of business.

Also the high times magazine just to be assholes, or they were interested...who knows, but with the looks of that one im suprized there wasnt an arsonal of kiddy porn.

And by spores in jars, i assuming they mean a liquid culture, or he just printed caps in mason jars, then when he needs them he can pop in like 20cc's of water and suck it back out.  thats my guess.


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Re: Deputies announce mushroom bust [VA] [Re: mudkip]
    #9448853 - 12/17/08 08:05 AM (15 years, 3 months ago)

sucks to gett ratted on, plain and simple....I got dimed out for drug related crimes and did an extra 2.5yrs because I wouldn't be an "information specialist" aka ratt. The confiscating shit is a big money game since they just action the shit off...which is how I got my 25inch tv for 10 bucks...from propertyroom.com The pigs sell their shit to them and then they auction it off.


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Re: Deputies announce mushroom bust [VA] [Re: rizingfire]
    #9449082 - 12/17/08 09:26 AM (15 years, 3 months ago)

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rizingfire said:
sucks to gett ratted on, plain and simple....I got dimed out for drug related crimes and did an extra 2.5yrs because I wouldn't be an "information specialist" aka ratt. The confiscating shit is a big money game since they just action the shit off...which is how I got my 25inch tv for 10 bucks...from propertyroom.com The pigs sell their shit to them and then they auction it off.




lol that website is terrible.  if you go to everything else > Home and garden their actually selling ballasts, hps lights and all kinds of grow equipment.

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    #9449166 - 12/17/08 09:53 AM (15 years, 3 months ago)

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Re: Deputies announce mushroom bust [VA] [Re: AnonymousRabbit]
    #9449232 - 12/17/08 10:13 AM (15 years, 3 months ago)

yeah its true if you get caught dealing drugs or even on for that matter. depending on the type of drug it is. you can have everything taken from you. I think I read on here a man had 500k taken away. He got 150k back he proved it was legal.

the other part is I wonder what the dealers name on the shroomery was. Im not gunna lie he looks retarded no wonder he got busted. As for mushrooms $50 for 3.5 gram isnt unheard of depending on area flipped out per oz. thats $400. $500 is a lil high. The people who maunfact. usually sell them for $50-$200 an oz.  Depending on how much they are getting rid to one person. No one would buy a pound for $3200. As you go down the list through middle men. They usually make double what they put into it. Sometimes triple. Some people have to pay more because they arent frequent buyers. Thats how it works. I bet then send him to prison for 2 years atleast.


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Re: Deputies announce mushroom bust [VA] [Re: AnonymousRabbit]
    #9451196 - 12/17/08 05:21 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

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supernovasky said:
Wow. Haha.

Someone is gonna get shot.
Seriously... those police didn't give the informant's name, but damn, EVERYTHING else was given.




Yeah, that can be the end result of being the police's "friend." Its likely that the police couldn't find any more use for the informant, so somebody leaked to the press and threw the poor guy under the bus. Also, the public notice of the snitching could be intended to make the other dealers become suspicious and possible turn on one another with paranoia. If violence results, hey, the police can make more arrests and likely take more plunder. Then ask for more public funding to crack down on the apparent increase in crime, effectively raiding two coffers at once.


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Re: Deputies announce mushroom bust [VA] [Re: Shr00mZ]
    #9454824 - 12/18/08 08:02 AM (15 years, 3 months ago)

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the other part is I wonder what the dealers name on the shroomery was.




Lol who said he was a shroomery member?


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Re: Deputies announce mushroom bust [VA] [Re: mudkip]
    #9458196 - 12/18/08 07:31 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

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mudkip said:
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Shr00mZ said:

the other part is I wonder what the dealers name on the shroomery was.




Lol who said he was a shroomery member?




The informant told investigators that he'd seen Murden with "pounds" of mushrooms for sale on many occasions in the past two months, the affidavit says, and that he had bought about 7 pounds from Murden within the past three months.


Anyone with the skills to produce pounds of mushrooms undoubtedly owes the shroomery SOME thanks... :commonsense: lol

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Re: Deputies announce mushroom bust [VA] [Re: hightimesreader]
    #9458210 - 12/18/08 07:33 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

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