Rochester Woman Sentenced For Hallucinogenic Mushroom Operation

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Rochester, MN (KROC-AM News) - A Rochester woman was sentenced today for a conviction connected to the discovery of a hallucinogenic mushroom grow operation last fall

24-year-old Kailyn Felker earlier admitted to a second-degree drug possession charge through a plea agreement with the Olmsted County Attorney's Office. In exchange, a first-degree drug sale charge and a gross misdemeanor count of illegal possession of a firearm were dismissed.

She was sentenced to five years on probation. Felker was arrested in the company of 24-year-old Austin Dahl when investigators with the Southeast Minnesota Violent Crime Enforcement Team executed a search warrant at a Chatfield home and seized 5 pounds of the illegal mushrooms, various drug paraphernalia, and two shotguns. The criminal complaint indicated the entire east bedroom of the house was dedicated to a mushroom grow operation.

Dahl also worked out a plea deal with prosecutors. He admitted to a first-degree drug possession charge in exchange for the dismissal of another first-degree drug charge and a charge involving the illegal possession of a firearm. He was given a stayed sentence of nearly 5 1/2 years and was placed on probation for five years.