9/30/11 Wooster man gets five years for growing, selling psilocybin mushrooms

  • By Nick Sabo
  • September 30, 2011
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A Wooster man who grew and sold hallucinogenic mushrooms was sentenced Friday Sept. 30 in Wayne County Common Pleas Court. Brian K. Brown, 44, 7040 Cleveland Road, was sentenced by Common Pleas Judge Corey Spitler to five years in prison on five counts of illegal manufacture or cultivation of drugs and two counts of trafficking in controlled substances. The charges stem from a Medway Drug Enforcement Agency investigation carried out between March 7 - June 6. At the conclusion of the investigation, Medway raided Brown’s residence and found evidence that Brown had been incubating mushroom spores in glass jars before transferring them to finish growing on trays. Brown prepared the dried product and chopped up the mushrooms to sell in small chocolate cakes. His mother, Ilene Bennett, 67, 7040 Cleveland Road, Wooster is charged with helping Brown prepare the mushrooms for sale. Brown is believed to have assisted Bert D. Underwood, 58, 692 Greenwood Boulevard, Wooster, Shannon M. Yeagley, 29, 3669 E. Sterling Road, Creston, and Justin R. Graham, 27, 140 N. Main St., Creston, in getting started with psilocybin grow operations of their own. Brown’s father-in-law, Harry Bennett, 67, 7040 Cleveland Road, Wooster, has also been charged. Underwood has pleaded guilty to two counts of trafficking in drugs and one count of illegal manufacture or illegal cultivation of drugs. In addition to the prison time, Spitler suspended Brown’s driver’s license for 6 months and ordered Brown forfeit a Springfield-model 9 millimeter handgun.


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