Rare magic mushrooms found in $200K drug bust

CALGARY Magic mushrooms are a rare find, police said following a drug bust last week.

“We haven’t seen a lot of that,” Calgary Police Service Insp. Mike Bossley said.

“It definitely would be a very rare event for us to come across magic mushroom growing operations in Calgary.”

Heroin and fentanyl were also among the drugs seized by police from a northeast home last Friday, and Bossley said those continue to be a source of significant concern for officers.

Following a public tip, police conducted a traffic stop July 22 and searched a home.

Seized were 13.7 kilograms of magic mushrooms, 65.5 grams of fentanyl in its powder form, 28.3 grams of heroin and 39.5 grams of cocaine.

Also seized was a large amount of cutting agent, pill presses, a pellet gun and several hundred dollars in cash.

The total seizures are worth about $200,000, though Bossley said if the fentanyl was cut and had made it to pill form, and was sold at the common $20 per pill, it could have brought in roughly $1.3 million in illicit gains.

Sheldon Tyler Adams, 31, is charged with production and manufacturing drugs, possession of drugs and possession of property obtained by crime. Brandon Sean Carter, 32, is charged with four counts of being unlawfully at large.