announced Friday<\/a> by the U.S. attorney\u2019s office in the Southern District of California.<\/p>\nWhile executing a search warrant in October 2024, law enforcement officers found 257 pounds of mushrooms and 18 pounds of growing material at a location in Fallbrook, as well as 25 pounds of mushrooms, 5 pounds of psilocybin capsules and six firearms at a location in Bonsall.<\/p>\n
Vance also admitted that he began feeding his 9- and 11-year-old sons psilocybin capsules every other day starting around October 2023 and every day by 2024. Vance was arrested in October 2024 following the execution of the search warrant.<\/p>\n
\u201cPsilocybin mushrooms are a controlled substance,\u201d according to the attorney\u2019s office, \u201cthat act as hallucinogenic drugs, inducing altered states of consciousness and vivid sensory experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n
As part of his operation, Vance maintained two websites and an Instagram account to market the mushrooms and provided mushrooms to his older son to sell to friends, he admitted.<\/p>\n
Following his arrest, Vance and his co-conspirators destroyed evidence by deleting phone messages and taking down the two websites, the plea agreement says.<\/p>\n
Before his arrest, Vance was out on bond pending state charges. His two co-defendents, wife Rebecca Vance, 42, and friend Keir Ceballos-Rivera, 34, previously pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Diego County man admitted he enlisted his two children in a conspiracy to grow and distribute…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[237,153245,217,153243,48,52,51,5936,47,50,49,492,346,1459,2621,153242,152536,153244,9981,5783,3660],"class_list":["post-378845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-arrest","tag-child-psilocybin-capsule","tag-day","tag-kid-hallucinogenic-mushroom","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-location","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-october","tag-office","tag-part","tag-pound","tag-psilocybin-mushroom","tag-randal-vance","tag-san-diego-county-man","tag-search-warrant","tag-u-s-attorney","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378845","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=378845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}