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Alabama Warden and Wife Busted for Making “Magic” Mushrooms

Loaded on Oct. 15, 2024 published in Prison Legal News October, 2024, page 43
Filed under: Police Misconduct, War on Drugs. Location: Alabama.

Warden Chadwick “Chad” Ray Crabtree, 45, of Alabama’s Limestone Correctional Facility (LCF), was behind bars at Limestone County Jail on April 19, 2024, after agents from the state Department of Corrections (DOC) joined local and state cops to execute five warrants and raid his home, arresting him on charges of possessing marijuana and drug paraphernalia. He is also accused of manufacturing psilocybin “magic” mushrooms. His wife, Melissa Kay Crabtree, 55, was also arrested on the same counts.

DOC immediately placed Crabtree on unpaid leave, spokeswoman Kathy Betts said. He has been employed by the agency for more than 20 years, taking over his current position when the former warden retired in 2022. Since then, the families of three prisoners who died at LCF claimed that their corpses were returned without any internal organs, as PLN reported. [See: PLN, June 2024, p.42.]  

Additional source: 1819 News, WHNT

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