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 Raid on biggest mushroom drug operation in Wayne 
#14596958 - 06/11/11 06:59 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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WOOSTER -- Five people were arrested and charged in connection with what is being called the largest psilocybin mushroom drug operation Wayne County has ever seen.
Operation Shroom Hunt on Monday included six search warrants at Wayne County locations, with one in Ashland County, and capped off a six-month investigation into the psilocybin mushroom operation.
Psilocybin mushrooms are a schedule one hallucinogenic drug.
A total of 57 baking pans of mushroom spores were seized. An additional 110 mason jars were seized with spores inside, along with 30-40 weapons and ammunition.
David Smith, director of Medway Drug Enforcement Agency, said if all of the spores were to be fully grown they would equal about 28 kilograms of finished product with a street value of nearly $150,000.
Justin R. Graham, 27, and Shannon M. Yeagley, 29, were arrested at 3669 East Sterling Road, Lot 8, their home in Canaan Township. Graham was charged with trafficking in crack cocaine and heroin. Yeagley was charged with trafficking in crack cocaine.
Brian K. Brown, 44, was arrested at his 7040 Cleveland Road residence in Wayne Township and was charged with cultivation in psilocybin mushrooms, a second-degree felony.
Brown's mother, Ilene M. Bennett, 68, was arrested and charged with cultivation of psilocybin mushrooms. Bennett was arrested at Brown's Cleveland Road residence as well.
Bert D. Underwood, 57, of 692 Greenwood Boulevard, Wooster, and owner of Bert's Jewelry, 2991 Cleveland Road, Wooster, also was arrested and charged with cultivation within 1,000 feet of a school, in this case Edgewood Middle School. The charge is a first-degree felony.
Search warrants were executed at Underwood's Greenwood Boulevard residence, a residence he owns at 5672 Force Road in Clinton Township, as well as his Cleveland Road business.
Smith noted Underwood allegedly was dealing the drugs from his business and an unknown amount of finished product was recovered there.
Additional search warrants were executed at 5455 Cleveland Road, a residence in Wayne Township, and at 2461 State Route 179, a Lakeville residence in connection with the operation.
Smith said Brown said during the operation he was the one who taught the other individuals the proper methods for cultivating the mushrooms.
Brown's mother is alleged to have helped him in the harvesting of the mushrooms, which, after they were grown, were diced up and put into various chocolates about the size of a hockey puck. About 3 grams of the hallucinogenic drug were placed in each chocolate, Smith noted.
"(Brown) said he was making about 30 pans a month at one time," for the past four years, Smith said.
Brown has a prior conviction distributing marijuana while serving in the United States Army.
Smith, along with Wooster Police Chief Steve Glick and Wayne County Sheriff Thomas Maurer, noted the bust has grabbed the attention of state and federal agents.
"This is one of the biggest mushroom busts in the state that I am aware of," as far as cultivating the drug, Smith noted.
Underwood was noted to be a major grower and distributor of the mushrooms, as well as supplying weapons. The 30-40 weapons seized belonged to Underwood. They included AK-47s, rifles, shotguns and pistols. He also had $1,000-$2,000 worth of ammunition. He has his conceal-carry permit and was known to always have a gun on his person.
The bulk of the mushroom pans collected were from Underwood's Greenwood Boulevard address. But pans also were recovered at Graham and Yeagley's East Sterling Road residence and Brown's Cleveland Road residence.
Jars of mushroom spores were collected from the East Sterling Road, Force Road and Greenwood Boulevard residences.
And weapons were seized from Brown's Wayne Township residence.
Smith noted further charges are pending against others involved in the operation. Additional charges are pending against the five arrested Monday.
Glick said the initial speculation is there is product flowing out of the region from the local growers.
"They've got to be getting it out (of the region) ... it's just so much and we would hear about it on the streets," the police chief said. "I can tell you there is a market in the county and Wooster" for these drugs.
"This is an absolute acknowledgment of illegal drug activity in our community," Maurer noted in what he called a "drug culture" in the area. "I firmly believe if it was not for Medway and its members, this may have gone under the scope of knowledge to be stopped."
And all three law enforcement officials noted it was street level intelligence and surveillance that led to the arrests and the seizure of evidence.
"Look for any activity outside the norm," Glick noted. "It may turn out to be nothing, or it may turn into something like this."
Smith added short-term traffic, especially at odd hours, is the biggest tip to possible drug activity.
About 50 agents took part in Operation Shroom Hunt from Medway, the Bureau of Criminal Identification & Investigation, Drug Enforcement Agency, Wayne and Ashland sheriff's offices and officers from Wooster, Orrville, Rittman, Brunswick, Creston, Smithville, Doylestown, Shreve and Millersburg police departments.
http://www.the-daily-record.com/news/article/5047238
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Re: Raid on biggest mushroom drug operation in Wayne [Re: MushroomPalace]
#14596969 - 06/11/11 07:03 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
And all three law enforcement officials noted it was street level intelligence and surveillance
IOW: snitches be snitchin'.
Still, selling crack and heroin and guns is bad, mmmkay?
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Re: Raid on biggest mushroom drug operation in Wayne [Re: Doc_T]
#14596990 - 06/11/11 07:09 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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Prolly was watchen him Sell Crack, and Herion- that would be supere frequent traffic, And when Tyrone Biggums is sucking Joe rogans dick for a hit out side that may have given it away, the he snitched on the other guy or something like that
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Re: Raid on biggest mushroom drug operation in Wayne [Re: 2jew4u]
#14597001 - 06/11/11 07:11 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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There's nothing wrong with selling crack and heroin and guns.
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Re: Raid on biggest mushroom drug operation in Wayne [Re: Humility]
#14597002 - 06/11/11 07:12 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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Yeas that damn mandatory- 20years sucks
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Re: Raid on biggest mushroom drug operation in Wayne [Re: 2jew4u]
#14597168 - 06/11/11 08:04 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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I think they broke the rule of "Never break more then one law at a time." They screwed them selves for being greedy.
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baking pans and mason jars with spores 
the fucking news man, just goes to show they report lies like a mother-fucker.
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Re: Raid on biggest mushroom drug operation in Wayne [Re: closed veil]
#14597182 - 06/11/11 08:08 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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Lies? You don't think there were spores in those jars?
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Re: Raid on biggest mushroom drug operation in Wayne [Re: Doc_T]
#14597199 - 06/11/11 08:11 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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i think they were full of grain spawn and they don't know the diff between spawn and spores
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Re: Raid on biggest mushroom drug operation in Wayne [Re: closed veil]
#14597204 - 06/11/11 08:12 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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You don't think he shot spores in the jars?
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#14597211 - 06/11/11 08:13 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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really? are u really gonna do this?
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#14597217 - 06/11/11 08:14 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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"A total of 57 baking pans of mushroom spores were seized." that would be trillions of spores.
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Re: Raid on biggest mushroom drug operation in Wayne [Re: closed veil]
#14597219 - 06/11/11 08:15 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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I'm just confused. People bitch about news stories, but this one seemed pretty decent.
Really, you don't think there were spores in the jars?
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Dont blame the news for not knowing how to grow the mushrooms. We all have our own field of expertise and interest. In this example there job was to give us the information that was provided to them by the police (who probably also don't understand exactly how to grow the mushrooms but have a pretty good idea.)
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#14597260 - 06/11/11 08:22 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
closed veil said:
"A total of 57 baking pans of mushroom spores were seized." that would be trillions of spores.
the story was far from accurate. your not confused Doc, stop being a bitch.
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Re: Raid on biggest mushroom drug operation in Wayne [Re: closed veil]
#14597296 - 06/11/11 08:32 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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Doc, there were definitely spores in the jars and pans, but, there were not JUST spores in the pan, as the article makes it out to be.
There was probably spawn and spores, yes, but not just spores. That's what he's saying. It wasn't JUST spores. Re-read it and if you still don't follow, re-read it again. You're super confused bro 
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Re: Raid on biggest mushroom drug operation in Wayne [Re: closed veil]
#14597301 - 06/11/11 08:33 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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Well if the police stick to there story and keep calling them spores maybe they can have all the mushroom evidence thrown out because spores alone are not illegal. Regardless there still fucked.
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Re: Raid on biggest mushroom drug operation in Wayne [Re: MushroomPalace]
#14597396 - 06/11/11 08:59 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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"Look for any activity outside the norm," Glick noted. "It may turn out to be nothing, or it may turn into something like this.
what ?? raid my house for a maybe? fuck you.
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Quote:
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Well if the police stick to there story and keep calling them spores maybe they can have all the mushroom evidence thrown out because spores alone are not illegal. Regardless there still fucked.
Or its a key to prohibiting spores in the future!
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Re: Raid on biggest mushroom drug operation in Wayne [Re: sporophight]
#14597628 - 06/11/11 09:51 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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 That's such a good point dude.
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