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Patches Magickbeans Charged After Psilocybin-Fueled Crash Injures Worker

He remains jailed on $75,000 bail pending blood test results

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Overview

  • On June 19, Magickbeans’s van swerved through a construction zone on Highway 61 and struck a scissor lift at the Lafayette Tunnel, flipping before coming to rest.
  • Construction worker Benjamin Kidd, 27, was critically injured and remains hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.
  • Authorities found about 89.5 grams of suspected Psilocybin mushrooms in Magickbeans’s van and reported he exhibited incoherent, hallucinatory behavior at the scene.
  • He faces two counts of criminal vehicular operation causing great bodily harm and a second-degree controlled substance possession charge.
  • Magickbeans is held at Lake County Jail with his next court date set for August as prosecutors await the results of his blood tests.