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SYLVA – Investigators found a lab for making psychedelic drugs, a host of designer drugs, guns and cash in the home of a Glenville man, the Jackson County Sheriff's Office said Monday.
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The residence contained a lab for making the psychedelic DMT, authorities said.
Among the items seized were 1,200 capsules and 100 grams of a drug called 2C-B, which was used as a drug in psychiatric therapy. It produces a short “trip” of about three hours and is considered milder than LSD.
Investigators said they also found two grams of psychedelic DMT, three pounds of psychedelic mushrooms, 59 hits of Ecstasy, 750 hits of acid, a half pound “high grade” marijuana and what they believe is a small amount of Hashish, and $7,000 in cash, sheriff's Capt. Steve Lillard said in a statement.
Deputies charged Matthew Jordan Reynolds, 34, with numerous counts related to possessing and making illegal drugs. He remained jailed Monday. Bond was set at $200,000.
Sheriff Jimmy Ashe said the drugs seized had an estimated street value of $100,000. His office has shut down operations for making some kinds of designer drugs, but nothing like the discovery Thursday, Ashe said.
“Basically, he had a home pharmacy,” he said.
Ashe said authorities feared Reynolds is a flight risk. He is from Miami and has family in Costa Rico, Ashe said.
Authorities also said they found undetermined quantities of the designer drugs DOC and DOI, sometimes called molly paper on the street, in Reynolds' home.
Narcotics investigators in neighboring Haywood County this summer seized tabs of the drug in a car and later at a house. They suspected it in two violent arrests, including one where a man was swinging an axe handle at oncoming cars in the middle of a traffic circle.
The N.C. State Bureau of Investigation was called in to help with the Jackson County lab and the chemicals at the Old Post Office Road home.
In court papers, sheriff's detective R.L. Buchanan said authorities learned of drugs through three confidential informants.
Buchanan said in the documents that the informants told him a man who went by the name “Hippie” was selling marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms.
The documents identify Reynolds as having used the nickname.