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ST. GEORGE — Two people were arrested Wednesday after a large-scale illicit drug distribution operation was discovered by agents who had searched a Washington residence.
Washington County Drug Task Force agents served a warrant on the home and asked the occupants — Nathaniel Colt Albrecht, 48, and Melinda Lark Albrecht, 54 — to exit and were detained nearby.
According to the affidavits filed in support of the arrests, officers located a large metal safe in the garage that had a digital passcode. Nathaniel Albrecht provided the code to agents, saying the couple had recently started a church and that sacrament-related items were being stored inside the safe.
Agents opened the safe and found 15 one-gallon plastic bins that contained what appeared to be dried psilocybin mushrooms. Each of the bins was labeled to identify the strain of the mushrooms.
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