Illegal mushrooms found near crib

FARGO (AP) — Fargo police say they searched an apartment after getting a tip that a man was growing hallucinogenic mushrooms and found them near a baby’s crib.

Jason Vernon Allen is facing drug charges as well as a child endangerment charge.

The 26-year-old Allen is free after posting $1,000 bail. A jury trial is set for Nov. 3.

Allen’s attorney, Steven Light of Fargo, was out of town and not immediately available for comment.

Police reports said a search of Allen’s apartment Tuesday found mushrooms growing in the bedroom closet and elsewhere in the apartment as well as marijuana, cocaine, a snort tube, three ecstasy pills, smoking devices, scales and $1,065 in cash.

Police said the apartment manager told them Allen lived alone but had a new baby boy who often stayed with him. The police report said the baby’s crib “was within arm’s reach of the mushroom grow operation.”

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