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No arrests yet as deputies find mushroom-growing operation, guns, cash

By WENDY GRAGG

McLennan County sheriff’s deputies found a cache of drugs, guns and a rare mushroom-growing operation while serving a misdemeanor warrant near the Baylor University campus early Friday.

Patrol deputies serving the warrant about 1 a.m. Friday at an apartment three blocks from campus smelled marijuana when the door opened.

They did a sweep of the apartment and saw items that led them to call in the organized crime unit.

Deputies seized high-grade marijuana; pills believed to be hydrocodone, Ritalin and ecstasy; liquid promethazine; and allegedly hallucinogenic mushrooms, along with a complete mushroom-growing setup, among other equipment.

They also seized more than $9,000 cash, a .40-caliber semi-automatic weapon and a MAC-10 9 mm semi-automatic weapon.

“A lot of work our officers do, we have no idea what’s on the other side of that door. This is a prime example of that,” said McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara.