MONROE - An Albany couple was growing psychedelic mushrooms in their basement and dealing drugs out of their home on North Jackson Street earlier this year, according to criminal complaints filed this week in Green County Circuit Court.
Karmen Elisabeth Marshall, 25, and Christopher H. Stevens, 36, are charged with possessing psilocin with intent to deliver and maintaining a drug-trafficking place, both felonies, as well as a misdemeanor count each of possessing drug paraphernalia.
Marshall is charged with six additional felonies, including possession of methamphetamine, possession of Schedule IV and V drugs with intent to deliver and a second count of maintaining a drug-trafficking place, plus a second misdemeanor count of possessing drug paraphernalia.
A separate felony case filed last month alleges she mailed pills of the prescription drug Suboxone to Stevens in the Dane County Jail this summer. Suboxone is used to manage opioid addiction.
Following a search in June of their home at 105 N. Jackson St., Stevens was arrested and indicted in federal court on felony charges of trafficking meth.
The latest charges against Stevens and Marshall in Green County stem from that search. A subsequent search of the home Sept. 8 led to yet more charges in the case against Marshall.
According to the criminal complaints, area police and agents with the Stateline Area Narcotics Team (SLANT) found numerous syringes, baggies, dining spoons with burn marks and white residue, prescription pills like Klonopin and buprenorphine, a glass pipe and other evidence of drug activity laying out in the living room.
Agents also found handwritten notes on growing mushrooms, as well as a notebook with usernames and passwords that "appeared to be connected to the dark web."
The dark web is a part of the World Wide Web not indexed by search engines and only accessible through special networks, making it ideal for anonymous illegal drug transactions.
An agent noted that "the dark web was found to be open on a running computer after Christopher Stevens' arrest" in June.
In the fridge, agents reported finding a vacuum-sealed package of syringes containing psilocybin mushroom spores. Other containers and petri dishes were labeled with various strains of the psychedelic mushroom, like Mazatapec, "Puerto Rican," "Ecuador" and "Burma."
Agents located the "mushroom grow" in the basement.
Neighbors told agents that the house got frequent visits from people who stayed only five minutes.
On several occasions, a neighbor saw Stevens outside wearing latex gloves and doing suspicious things like dividing items from plastic totes into gallon-sized baggies and hosing down glass jars in the yard.
Stevens has a history of narcotics-related convictions in Green County going back more than a decade. For Marshall, state court records show convictions of disorderly conduct, bail jumping and operating while intoxicated, but no drug convictions.
Marshall signed a $10,000 signature bond Thursday with the conditions that she not possess or consume controlled substances, possess drug paraphernalia or have contact with Stevens. Her preliminary hearing is Nov. 8.
A warrant is issued for Stevens' arrest.
Karmen Elisabeth Marshall, 25, and Christopher H. Stevens, 36, are charged with possessing psilocin with intent to deliver and maintaining a drug-trafficking place, both felonies, as well as a misdemeanor count each of possessing drug paraphernalia.
Marshall is charged with six additional felonies, including possession of methamphetamine, possession of Schedule IV and V drugs with intent to deliver and a second count of maintaining a drug-trafficking place, plus a second misdemeanor count of possessing drug paraphernalia.
A separate felony case filed last month alleges she mailed pills of the prescription drug Suboxone to Stevens in the Dane County Jail this summer. Suboxone is used to manage opioid addiction.
Following a search in June of their home at 105 N. Jackson St., Stevens was arrested and indicted in federal court on felony charges of trafficking meth.
The latest charges against Stevens and Marshall in Green County stem from that search. A subsequent search of the home Sept. 8 led to yet more charges in the case against Marshall.
According to the criminal complaints, area police and agents with the Stateline Area Narcotics Team (SLANT) found numerous syringes, baggies, dining spoons with burn marks and white residue, prescription pills like Klonopin and buprenorphine, a glass pipe and other evidence of drug activity laying out in the living room.
Agents also found handwritten notes on growing mushrooms, as well as a notebook with usernames and passwords that "appeared to be connected to the dark web."
The dark web is a part of the World Wide Web not indexed by search engines and only accessible through special networks, making it ideal for anonymous illegal drug transactions.
An agent noted that "the dark web was found to be open on a running computer after Christopher Stevens' arrest" in June.
In the fridge, agents reported finding a vacuum-sealed package of syringes containing psilocybin mushroom spores. Other containers and petri dishes were labeled with various strains of the psychedelic mushroom, like Mazatapec, "Puerto Rican," "Ecuador" and "Burma."
Agents located the "mushroom grow" in the basement.
Neighbors told agents that the house got frequent visits from people who stayed only five minutes.
On several occasions, a neighbor saw Stevens outside wearing latex gloves and doing suspicious things like dividing items from plastic totes into gallon-sized baggies and hosing down glass jars in the yard.
Stevens has a history of narcotics-related convictions in Green County going back more than a decade. For Marshall, state court records show convictions of disorderly conduct, bail jumping and operating while intoxicated, but no drug convictions.
Marshall signed a $10,000 signature bond Thursday with the conditions that she not possess or consume controlled substances, possess drug paraphernalia or have contact with Stevens. Her preliminary hearing is Nov. 8.
A warrant is issued for Stevens' arrest.