{"id":418537,"date":"2026-10-04T15:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/418537\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T15:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:46:09","slug":"riverview-man-accused-of-selling-psychedelic-mushrooms-cacti-on-facebook-marketplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/418537\/","title":{"rendered":"Riverview man accused of selling psychedelic mushrooms, cacti on Facebook Marketplace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hillsborough deputies say the man was running a psychedelics business via Facebook Marketplace.<\/p>\n

RIVERVIEW, Fla. \u2014 A Riverview man was arrested after Hillsborough County deputies say he was running a psychedelics business on Facebook Marketplace.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Oct. 1, investigators with the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office’s opioid overdose unit searched the home of Zachary Diaz, located on the 5500 block of Coolidge Street in Riverview.<\/p>\n

They found 131 live plants containing hallucinogens, including approximately 50 pounds of mescaline-containing cacti, or peyote, and 1.5 pounds of psilocybin mushrooms, along with multiple cultivation and manufacturing supplies.<\/p>\n

PHOTOS: Riverview man accused of selling psychedelic mushrooms, cacti on Facebook Marketplace<\/p>\n


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Detectives discovered that Diaz was running a business selling the plants on Facebook Marketplace.<\/p>\n

HCSO says Diaz already had outstanding warrants stemming from the investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was arrested on three counts of possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell within 1,000 feet of a church, three counts of delivery of a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a church and two counts of manufacturing a controlled substance.<\/p>\n

Diaz was released from jail Saturday after posting a $35,000 bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hillsborough deputies say the man was running a psychedelics business via Facebook Marketplace. RIVERVIEW, Fla. \u2014 A Riverview…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-418537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}