A Saco man was arrested Monday after police allegedly stumbled upon his drug lab.
Saco police were investigating a domestic violence related incident on Monday at 49 Cumberland Ave. when they found what they believed to be a clandestine drug laboratory inside the home.
The department called in the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, who did not know what kind of lab it was and called in the U.S. DEA clandestine laboratory team, the MDEA said.
Ultimately agents determined the lab was producing consciousness-altering psilocybin mushrooms and DMT (dimethyltryptamine). They seized 4.25 kilos of mushrooms, 12 grams of
DMT, 15 grams of cocaine, 34.5 grams of ketamine, 40 grams of MDMA, and 1478 doses of LSD, according to the MDEA.
Christopher Blanchette, 52, of Saco, was charged with two counts of trafficking in Schedule W drugs and two counts of trafficking in Schedule X drugs, along with charges stemming from the original police call at the residence, which the MDEA did not disclose.
Blanchette is being held at York County Jail on $250,000 cash bail, the MDEA said.
