A San Diego County man admitted he enlisted his two children in a conspiracy to grow and distribute hallucinogenic mushrooms and fed his children psilocybin capsules daily, authorities said.
Randal Vance, 43, worked with his wife and a friend to grow and distribute psilocybin mushrooms from two locations in north San Diego County, Vance admitted as part of a plea deal announced Friday by the U.S. attorney’s office in the Southern District of California.
While executing a search warrant in October 2024, law enforcement officers found 257 pounds of mushrooms and 18 pounds of growing material at a location in Fallbrook, as well as 25 pounds of mushrooms, 5 pounds of psilocybin capsules and six firearms at a location in Bonsall…