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Couple arrested in illegal-mushroom case

#1390504 - 03/19/03 08:02 AM (23 years, 7 months ago)

Couple arrested in illegal-mushroom case
By Aeron Marcott-Plooy
Marshfield News-Herald

Two Marshfield people face multiple drug charges following a police raid of a psilocybin mushroom operation.

Katherine M. Herzog, 24, and Jason C. Gasiorowski, 26, both of 811 E. Harrison St., apartment 108, were arrested by Marshfield police on Sunday.

"I think that there was personal use and also the potential to provide product to people," said Marshfield Police Detective Jackie Albers. She added that the couple was not taken into custody, but both were arrested.

"We knocked on the door, and their little boy told us to come on in," Albers said. Officers presented the search warrant, and the couple was surprised to see the officers but did not resist, Albers said.

Aluminum baking pans containing mushrooms were found, along with growing material, numerous jars with mushroom spores growing inside, marijuana and marijuana pipes, an indoor plastic greenhouse, a butterfly knife, a switchblade knife and drying mushrooms, police said. The couple also had a magazine called "High Times" - a publication geared toward drug users.

"The charges are pending through the Wood County District Attorney's office," Albers said. "He's in a wheelchair, she's disabled, they are caring for an infant and another child, and there are a couple more reasons why they were not taken into custody. But they are still facing the charges."
Albers said that an increase of in-home drug labs typically means the growers feel safer in their homes rather than purchasing the drugs or materials on the street.
Street sales, she said, increase the possibility of arrests, injuries or unfair deals with customers or other dealers.

"People are expanding their horizons," Albers said.
Herzog faces one felony charge of manufacturing psilocybin and misdemeanor charges of marijuana possession, possession of drug paraphernalia and two misdemeanor counts of possessing a switchblade.

Gasiorowski also faces one felony charge of manufacturing psilocybin and a felony charge of marijuana possession, one misdemeanor count of possession of drug paraphernalia and two misdemeanor counts of possessing a switchblade. He has a prior conviction of marijuana possession.

Albers said she believes the increased use and manufacturing of psilocybin mushrooms and other illegal drugs is cyclical. Police Chief Joe Stroik said the increase in outdoor temperatures is also increasing the drug activity in the area.

"It's not a sharp increase. It's gradual with the weather," Stroik said. "But we do realize an increase in leisure activity, as well as criminal activity."
"There used to be a lot of illegal drug use in the (1970s)," Albers said. "The clothes are coming back, the war protests are back, and the type of drugs they are using is back, like the mushrooms. I think that people are more willing to try growing things and manufacturing things."
Aeron Marcott-Plooy can be reached at 1-715-384-3131 or 1-800-967-2087, ext. 329, or at aeron.marcott@cwnews.net.

http://www.wisinfo.com/newsherald/mnhlocal/277274599976154.shtml

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