Police who were planning to arrest a Stamford man who did not pay a 2011 ticket for playing his home stereo too loudly said they stumbled on an alleged hallucinogenic mushroom growing operation and instead arrested him on drug charges.



The Advocate of Stamford reports that Dimitri Taranov was charged on Wednesday with illegal cultivation of a hallucinogen and manufacture of a controlled substance.



Capt. Richard Conklin said Taranov, 43, operated an elaborate hallucinogenic mushroom growing operation and police were lucky to "stumble upon" the operation as it was beginning.



No mushrooms were growing.



It was not known on Friday if Taranov is represented by a lawyer. He was held on $500,000 bond.

