{"id":268803,"date":"2026-06-16T19:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/268803\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T19:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:44:09","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-lost-brooklyn-hiker-arrested-in-state-park-after-police-find-hallucinogenic-mushrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/268803\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Lost Brooklyn Hiker Arrested In State Park After Police Find Hallucinogenic Mushrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">New York State Police arrested a lost hiker in Harriman State Park after a search led troopers to discover about 45 grams of psilocybin mushrooms.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The hiker, Jashiya B. Smith, 30, of Brooklyn, was part of a group of hikers near Stahahe Lake on June 15.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say Smith became separated from the group after allegedly taking the mushrooms and running into the woods during a dispute after becoming overwhelmed. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He later reached Arden Valley Road in the Town of Tuxedo and called for help.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">During the response, troopers found the mushrooms and charged him with felony second-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Smith was processed at the state police station in Monroe, arraigned in Tuxedo Town Court, and released on his own recognizance. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He is scheduled to return to court on July 8.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The investigation remains ongoing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York State Police arrested a lost hiker in Harriman State Park after a search led troopers to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-268803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}