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[CA] Nearly 30lbs. of magic mushrooms found during stop in Merced County 1
#27974422 - 09/29/22 07:07 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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Nearly 30lbs. of magic mushrooms found during stop in Merced County September 29, 2022 - KMPH

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. — A Merced California Highway Patrol K9 unit found and seized psilocybin mushrooms (also known as ‘magic mushrooms’) during a traffic stop, CHP Merced officials say.
CHP-Merced conducted a traffic stop on a Honda Accord due to a violation. There the officer noticed several indicators of criminal activity.
K9 Shei was called in to sniff the outside of the car. She then gave the officer a positive alert for drugs.
During the search, about 29 pounds of psilocybin mushrooms were found in several large bags.
Both the driver and a passenger were arrested and facing several charges.
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Re: [CA] Nearly 30lbs. of magic mushrooms found during stop in Merced County [Re: veggie] 5
#27974463 - 09/29/22 07:33 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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There is no way they have a dog trained for mushrooms. They had a tip 100%
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Re: [CA] Nearly 30lbs. of magic mushrooms found during stop in Merced County [Re: Dr. Funtime] 3
#27974505 - 09/29/22 07:56 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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Wow. Look at the license plate on the car.
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Re: [CA] Nearly 30lbs. of magic mushrooms found during stop in Merced County [Re: Pluviophile] 1
#27974530 - 09/29/22 08:11 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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OMFG if that's is their real tag they deserve it...
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Re: [CA] Nearly 30lbs. of magic mushrooms found during stop in Merced County [Re: Pluviophile] 1
#27974677 - 09/29/22 09:33 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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Pluviophile said: Wow. Look at the license plate on the car.
Whoa……unbelievable lol
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Re: [CA] Nearly 30lbs. of magic mushrooms found during stop in Merced County [Re: Psicomb]
#27974685 - 09/29/22 09:36 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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I felt bad till I saw the license plate. I mean cmon thats not a smart move
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Re: [CA] Nearly 30lbs. of magic mushrooms found during stop in Merced County [Re: veggie]
#27974726 - 09/29/22 10:11 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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What could those charges be? Handing out all that to skid row and all that are being bussed in there? That would be great IMO. Come up with a great defense .
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Re: [CA] Nearly 30lbs. of magic mushrooms found during stop in Merced County [Re: Barnaby] 1
#27974773 - 09/29/22 11:06 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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I can’t believe that license plate. Wow. How are you gonna be moving 30 pounds of shrooms and give red flags like that.
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Re: [CA] Nearly 30lbs. of magic mushrooms found during stop in Merced County [Re: green711] 1
#27974774 - 09/29/22 11:08 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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I’ve never seen 30lbs of mushrooms before..
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Re: [CA] Nearly 30lbs. of magic mushrooms found during stop in Merced County [Re: Dr. Funtime] 1
#27974779 - 09/29/22 11:17 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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Dr. Funtime said: There is no way they have a dog trained for mushrooms. They had a tip 100%
Maybe the dog can read license plates
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Re: [CA] Nearly 30lbs. of magic mushrooms found during stop in Merced County [Re: green711]
#27974810 - 09/30/22 12:33 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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Common sense. Mr. Wolf and plates. And yes if people are bored here is a tidbit. Tarantino and Harvey are brothers in the movie.
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Re: [CA] Nearly 30lbs. of magic mushrooms found during stop in Merced County [Re: Barnaby] 2
#27975140 - 09/30/22 09:24 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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If I was the lawyer, I'd totally investigate whether that police department trains their dogs to detect mushrooms.
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Re: [CA] Nearly 30lbs. of magic mushrooms found during stop in Merced County [Re: ReynardTheFox] 4
#27975183 - 09/30/22 10:16 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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It's more likely police departments train their dogs to bark when their leash is yanked.
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Re: [CA] Nearly 30lbs. of magic mushrooms found during stop in Merced County [Re: veggie] 1
#27975414 - 09/30/22 02:18 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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Wow at first when I read the headline I figured they would still be wet, but nope, those are dried shrooms. I didn't notice the license plate at first but can you be any more flagrant? LOL
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Re: [CA] Nearly 30lbs. of magic mushrooms found during stop in Merced County [Re: Dave Bowman] 2
#27975602 - 09/30/22 05:04 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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Probably a shroomery member
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Re: [CA] Nearly 30lbs. of magic mushrooms found during stop in Merced County [Re: Whyterye] 4
#27975619 - 09/30/22 05:22 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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Whyterye said: Probably a shroomery member
I hope everything goes okay for them.. but fuck.. come on man, why would you drive with weight in your car and have a plate like that? That's like wearing a shirt that says "I sell magic mushrooms, fuck the police "
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Re: [CA] Nearly 30lbs. of magic mushrooms found during stop in Merced County [Re: Whyterye]
#27975845 - 09/30/22 08:22 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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Was my first thought. ALL OF YOU THAT POST HERE ARE GUILTY AND IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME TILL JOHNNY LAW COMES DOWN ON YOU!
Seriously I get the joke. in my earlier days one of my friends in the drug culture said, you are the most unlucky man I have ever met. Telling him about my pull overs and busts.
Had a lot more of not giving a fuck and speeding in a nice CRX with amps and booming at the time but there is stupid and this article and what they did is just that. Dumb.
Switching plates. Just no. They do read tags. My brother, I am not nervous when a cop was behind him pulling out of a Tool concert, I AM NOT NERVOUS, lol, always looking in the rearview mirror where that wave of fear just coming out of him.
I don't know. The whole world is a stage and we are merely players. Think that was genius. Because fake plates, this time frame in the whole eternal scheme of things, really means next to nothing at certain times in life.
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Re: [CA] Nearly 30lbs. of magic mushrooms found during stop in Merced County [Re: veggie] 2
#27976050 - 10/01/22 12:32 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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Whyterye said: Probably a shroomery member
Probably. There's no one who learned to grow on Reddit with 29 pounds. haha.
"the officer noticed several indicators of criminal activity"
The fucking license plate says BADTRIP.
If that person had read the copy of "Arrest Proof Yourself" I posted on here 6 months ago, they wouldn't have that license place and they'd still have 29 pounds of shrooms.
Funny though: in the thumbnail I thought the shroom bags were bales of shrooms in the back of a pickup truck.
Edited by nektar61 (10/01/22 12:39 AM)
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Re: [CA] Nearly 30lbs. of magic mushrooms found during stop in Merced County [Re: veggie] 1
#28068065 - 11/24/22 09:59 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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I know its only been about 2 months, but does anyone know if there have been any updates on this?
I tried looking around online for a few minutes, and I couldn't find anything.. I'm kinda interested in following this and seeing how it turns out, but they never mention the person's name so I couldn't find a case number or anything.
I'm curious to find out if the case ends up getting thrown out due to an illegal search.. the K9 alerting seems like pretty flimsy probable cause, especially since they only reported finding mushrooms in the car
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Re: [CA] Nearly 30lbs. of magic mushrooms found during stop in Merced County [Re: Rotnpins]
#28068094 - 11/24/22 10:26 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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I missed this story last month, so I'm glad you bumped it.
I smell something else going on with that article, something fake about it. Obviously there's the license plate. In the original article, there's a photo of the front of the car and it too says BADTRIP. That has "highway-cop humor" written all over it.
Like others have mentioned, I call bullshit on a K9 detecting shrooms. If anything, the dog probably detected cannabis residuals that were transferred, but the dog would be hitting on the persons hands, etc. as well.
You pointed out that the article didn't include any names, which is the other thing I find odd. The suspects usually end up being named in my local news when it's drug related and sensational enough to be reported on.
They also will typically follow up on stories like this.
IMO, the CHP probably used an impounded car with a license they had made and made a fake news story out of it. The dumbass reporters probably went along with it, or never even realized they were being played. There are too many anomalies for this story to be real.
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