Man runs from police because of mushrooms

A UAPD officer went to the Cherry Street Parking Garage on Monday at 12:32 a.m. because another officer reported a suspicious person in the garage.

The other officer already at the garage said the man was running across the third level of the garage towards the north stairwell.

While the officers were trying to position themselves at the exits of the garage, the man was seen running up the stairs to the Optical Sciences building.

The officer saw the man run through a planter and jump down behind a wall to hide.

Because the officer could not see the man’s hands, he took out his handgun and aimed it at the man’s body and yelled for him to show his hands.

The man immediately threw his hands in the air, and he dropped his cell phone.

After the man was put into handcuffs, the officer could smell a strong odor of marijuana on him.

When the officers searched the area, the man was seen in a car, and, inside, they found and small plastic baggie containing marijuana and a plastic bag with psilocybin mushrooms inside.

The marijuana weighed 0.1 grams, and the mushrooms were sent to the Department of Public Safety for testing.

The man was arrested and booked into Pima County Jail for possession of marijuana, possession of a dangerous drug, possession of drug paraphernalia and second-degree criminal trespassing.