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Connecticut State Police Patch STATE OF CONNECTICUT
Department of Public Safety
1111 Country Club Road
Middletown, Connecticut 06457		  
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 12, 2010

       STATE POLICE MAKE ARRESTS IN MARIJUANA GROW OPERATION

   After an extensive narcotics undercover investigation, the State Police Statewide Narcotics Task Force applied for and obtained a search and seizure warrant from Superior Court to search a private residence located at 1901 Storrs Road in Mansfield, CT.

   On March 11, 2010, the Statewide Narcotic Task Force, assisted by the Mansfield Resident State Troopers Office & State Troopers from Troop C in Tolland, executed a search warrant at 1901 Storrs Road, Mansfield, CT.

   This search warrant resulted in narcotics investigators locating a large scale marijuana cultivation operation and a hallucinogen psilocin mushroom lab within the residence.

   Narcotics Detectives seized approximately 30 marijuana plants at various stages of cultivation, an amount of cultivated marijuana, hundreds of hallucinogenic mushroom spores, an amount of hallucinogenic mushrooms, numerous chemical components and materials utilized in the cultivation process of marijuana and hallucinogenic mushrooms.

   The suspects were taken into custody and transported to Troop C where they were processed and held on bond to appear in Superior Court.

#1 ARRESTED:     Judy Richard     (DOB 06/30/1961)

                      1901 Storrs Road, Mansfield, CT

CHARGES:    Cultivation of Marijuana

                  Cultivation of Hallucinogens

Conspiracy Commit Cultivation of Marijuana/Hallucinogens

Possession of Marijuana

Possession of Marijuana WITS

Possession of Hallucinogenic Mushrooms

Possession of Hallucinogenic Mushrooms WITS

Operating Drug Factory   

TOTAL BOND:  $25,000.00 Cash/Surety

COURT DATE: March 12, 2010 at Rockville Superior Court

#2  ARRESTED:   Justin Richard  (DOB 02/07/1982)

                     1901 Storrs Road, Mansfield, CT

CHARGES:    Cultivation of Marijuana

Cultivation of Hallucinogens

Conspiracy Commit Cultivation of Marijuana/Hallucinogens

Possession of Marijuana

Possession of Marijuana WITS

Possession of Hallucinogenic Mushrooms

Possession of Hallucinogenic Mushrooms WITS

Operating Drug Factory   

TOTAL BOND: $25,000.00 Cash/Surety

COURT DATE: March 12, 2010, at Rockville Superior Court

#3  ARRESTED:   Brandon Richard   (DOB 04/08/1992)

                     1901 Storrs Road, Mansfield, CT

CHARGES:    Cultivation of Marijuana

Cultivation of Hallucinogens

Conspiracy Commit Cultivation of Marijuana/Hallucinogens

Possession of Marijuana

Possession of Marijuana WITS

Possession of Hallucinogenic Mushrooms

Possession of Hallucinogenic Mushrooms WITS

Operating Drug Factory   

TOTAL BOND:  $25,000.00 Cash/Surety

COURT DATE:  March 12, 2010 at Rockville Superior Court

#4  ARRESTED:  Benjamin Richard (DOB 05/10/1987)

                   1901 Storrs Road, Mansfield, CT

CHARGES:    Cultivation of Marijuana

Cultivation of Hallucinogens

Conspiracy Commit Cultivation of Marijuana/Hallucinogens

Possession of Marijuana

Possession of Marijuana WITS

Possession of Hallucinogenic Mushrooms

Possession of Hallucinogenic Mushrooms WITS

Operating Drug Factory   

TOTAL BOND:  $25,000.00 Cash/Surety

COURT DATE:  March 12, 2010 at Rockville Superior Court

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LT.J. Paul Vance