{"id":377005,"date":"2026-06-27T07:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T07:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/377005\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T07:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T07:41:19","slug":"san-diego-dad-pleads-guilty-to-giving-magic-mushrooms-to-his-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/377005\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego dad pleads guilty to giving \u2018magic mushrooms\u2019 to his kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mushroom-obsessed <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/18\/us-news\/san-diego-man-snared-in-alleged-terrorism-plot-raised-cash-for-hamas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego man<\/a> admitted to dosing his 9 and 11-year-old kids with psilocybin mushrooms so that they could experience altered states of consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>Randal Vance pled guilty to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/25\/sports\/bode-millers-drug-charges-dismissed-after-new-information-emerges\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">several drugs charges<\/a> in federal court Friday. He allegedly lead a drug operation that used children to cultivate, produce and distribute psilocybin mushrooms in San Francisco\u2019s Fallbrook and Bonsall areas.<\/p>\n<p>Vance dosed his own kids with mushrooms daily, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>A room filled with numerous bags of psilocybin mushrooms on the floor and shelves. NBC7<\/p>\n<p>Randal Vance pled guilty to several drugs charges in federal court Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Vance also provided psilocybin capsules to his older son to sell to his young friends, offifials said. Adding his wife, 42-year-old Rebecca Vance, was his partner in business along with a friend, Keir Ceballos-Rivera.<\/p>\n<p>The trio sold whole, dried and freeze-dried mushrooms through their Instagram page along with two websites \u2014 psillyrabbit.com and psillyrabbitmushrooms.com. The mushroom dealers also produced chocolates induced with hallucinogenic mushrooms.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for the California Morning Report newsletter\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCalifornia&#8217;s top news, sports and entertainment delivered to your inbox every day.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Vance dosed his own kids with mushrooms daily, prosecutors said. San Diego County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>On Oct 4, 2024, law enforcement officials searched two of Vance\u2019s business locations in Fallbrook and Bonsall. At the Ash Street site, they seized 204 pounds of fresh and 53 pounds of dried psilocybin mushrooms, 18 pounds of inoculated substrate and processing equipment.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the raid, the drugs had an estimated street value of more than $200,000. San Diego County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>At the Lilac Road site, officials recovered 25 pounds of dried mushrooms, five pounds of capsules, and six unsecured firearms, including a Glock 34, Walther P22, Henry Survival AR7, Browning 30-06, and two revolvers. Loaded magazines were found next to the pistols. <\/p>\n<p>At the time of the raid, the drugs had an estimated street value of more than $200,000.<\/p>\n<p>Vance is facing up to 40 years of imprisonment for exploiting minors in narcotics operations, another 40 years for distributing controlled substances to children and decades more for distribution and obstruction of justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mushroom-obsessed San Diego man admitted to dosing his 9 and 11-year-old kids with psilocybin mushrooms so that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[131253,152619,4182,48067,74,76,75,3586],"class_list":["post-377005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-drug-dealers","tag-experimental-drugs","tag-metro","tag-mushrooms","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}