Mushroom Arrest Made in Ellinger

Sheriff Keith Korenek reports that on the evening of December 10 Deputy Seth Nagel conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle on Hwy. 71 near Ellinger. While conducting a search of the vehicle Deputy Nagel located a large number of individual containers of marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms in a bag the driver had stated was his. Arrested and booked into the Dan R. Beck Justice center was Jerome Turner, age 31, of Pearland for Possession of Marijuana and multiple charges for Possession of a Controlled Substance.