Police find mushrooms after alleged knife attack

A woman who told police her husband held a knife to her throat later admitted he was growing psychedelic mushrooms in their Buckingham Apartment.

The woman, Casey Harvill, called police Wednesday to say her husband, Thomas Harvill, had assaulted her the day before. In the police report Harvill said her husband held her down on the floor, placed a knife to her throat and threatened to kill her.

?He was threatening to kill all of us, myself, my two kids and himself,? Harvill wrote in the report. ?He handed me the knife and told me to cut his throat and I wouldn?t go to jail because it would be self-defense.?

The man?s behavior may be explained by the fact his wife told police he was growing mushrooms, a schedule I drug, at their apartment. Mushrooms can cause hallucinations.

When officers searched the apartment they found an aquarium on the kitchen table containing mushrooms and a cooler on the table also containing mushrooms.

Mr. Harvill is charged with domestic assault and manufacture of a schedule I drug.

?It?s rare we see mushrooms around here,? said McMinnville Police Capt. Bryan Denton. ?It?s really rare to come across someone producing them.?