Fire examination reveals large-scale psilocybin thc drug operations in town

Townsend-what as a routine fire reaction began, a large drug examination escalated, which led to the arrests of three town singers and the discovery of a large-scale psilocybin mushroom cultivation and the THC sales processes in a apartment building in two apartments.

According to an incident report by the police authority in Townsend, the police and the firefighters reacted 1 out of 258 Main St. shortly before midnight on April 3 to achieve a reported building fire. Officers deleted the flames in the apartment on the first floor, but while firefighters removed smoldering objects, they uncovered containers with THC distillation oil, also known as “dabs” or “butan honey oil”.

The police said that the investigators found out that the fire had arisen from a misfortune with isopropyl alcohol that lit up and spread over the carpet. Sean Doherty, 22, the resident of the apartment 1, told the police that he had used his “nail”-the surface used for smoking-cleaned when a embers lit the 5-gallon container with isopropyl alcohol and set fire to the carpet.

Doherty also allegedly admitted to the police that he sold the distillates on 24-year-old Robinson and Jovens Rossirus (27), the tenants of Apartment 2, almost week. According to the report, Doherty told the police that he had moved into his care from California and had the efforts to found a company that sold functional glass art. He explained that he regularly bought Glass artworks, cleaned and resold, who often became dirty from smoking.

In a simple view, the police said she observed a digital scale of pocket size, a hand -made burner and glass container with an amber -colored substance that matches the distillation oil.

According to the police report, they immediately inspired the building until a search order.

On April 4, the Townsend Police, the State Police and the State Department of Fire Services Condestine Laboratory Enforcement carried out a search order that uncovered drugs and utensils in the apartment. According to the report, the investigators confiscated $ 14,000, 12 pounds of vacuum chosen Marijuana, and about 3,600 THC vape stage images. The police also said that they found 39 small and seven large glasses with the distillation oil together with hundreds of food, cannabis chocolate beams and a small amount of psilocybin mushrooms.

Inside Apartment 2, Occupied by Robinson and Rosirus and Located on the Second and Third Floor, Police Said Uncovered 40 16-Gallon Clear Containers That Contained Psilocybin Mushrooms in Various Stails of Growth, 25 Large Zip-Lock Bags and a dead bin containing dehydrated Psilocybin Mushrooms, 60 THC-Infused Gold-Wrapped Chocolate Bars, Pressure Cookers, Nitrous Oxide Canister, and Glass Rauch Utenalia. A handwritten ledger tracking mushroom sale was also said to be recovered.

According to the police report, the mushroom cultivation scale concerns the investigators. An officer said in the report: “When I entered the door on the third floor, I was overwhelmed by the size and complexity of the obvious illegal mushroom growing company.”

In the apartment, the police said that they had discovered a large room that was divided by plastic films and was set up as a cultivation room. Deposits with petri dishes, spores, plastic syringes and glass bottles were used to start the cultivation process. The catch -on containers filled with mushrooms in various growth levels were along the walls, while the nearby dehydrators, a large oven and additional warehouse shelf, which were apparently the last processing area for the mushrooms, showed.

In addition to the growing company, the police said that it found a propane stove, floor bags, vermiculite and a wooden frame floor screener, which blocked a secondary flight of fire. Additional pressure cookers were also discovered in the apartment.

On April 16, Doherty was charged with the intention to distribute a class -d -substance (marijuana), possession, drug utensils, possession of a class D -substance, possession of a class C -substance and drug injury in a school zone on a school zone.

At his own discretion, Doherty was released with the command to forego illegal drugs and leisure marihuana.

Robinson and Rossirus were both charged on April 15 in front of the Ayer district court for possessions, the intention of distributing a medication in class C (PSILOCYBIN) to distribute in class C drug injury in a school zone and conspiracy against drug laws.

They were both released at their own discretion with the command to forego illegal drugs.

All three men are to return to court on June 18.

Attempts to achieve their lawyers, including Christopher Rearardon for Robinson and Steven Vaillancourt for Rossirus, were unsuccessful. Doherty's lawyer is unknown at this time. When Robinson was contacted on Thursday, he refused to comment on the allegations and postpone his lawyer. Rossirus and Doherty could not be reached.

Townsend's police chief, James Sartell, praised the law enforcement efforts in dismantling the company.

“I would like to thank our officials and detectives for a thorough investigation of this matter. I would also like to thank the Massachusetts State Police and the Department of Fire Services for their help,” said Sartell in a press release issued on Tuesday because of the arrests. “This was a large-scale mushroom cultivation and a large, not licensed, marijuana and THC sales company, both from the same house in our main street.”

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Originally published: May 1, 2025 at 17:56 PM Edt