Two Arrested For Felony Possession Of Psilocybin Mushrooms During Tobacco Sting

Redding Police School Resource Officers, working with Shasta County Health and Human Services, have made a series of minor decoy sting operations. On Tuesday an underage operative went into three different smoke shops to purchase items that are forbidden to be sold to anyone under the age of 21. Multiple locations were selling not just vape products, but also candy bars that claimed to be laced with hallucinogenic psilocybin mushrooms. At the Less Smoke Shop on Eureka Way, Mandeep and Amritpal Singh were arrested for felony possession of psilocybin for sale and furnishing a vape product to a minor. Those same charges were filed against Halle Ohlin at the Happy Cloud Smoke Shop on Hartnell Avenue. Caden Trotter at the Smokerz Smoke Shop on Lake Boulevard was cited for furnishing a vape product to a minor. A state grant will allow the RPD to continue these sting operations.