Article: 23 arrested in drug raid at Church of Universal Love and Music

"Funk Fest" became one big bust this weekend at the Church of Universal Love and Music.

The Fayette County Drug Task Force conducted a drug raid this weekend on the self-proclaimed nondenominational church's 147-acre property in Bullskin. It resulted in the arrests of 23 people and the seizure of enough marijuana, hash brownies, hallucinogenic mushrooms, LSD, laughing gas and drug paraphernalia to pack two storage trailers with a capacity of about 3,000 pounds, District Attorney Nancy Vernon said Sunday.

Dozens of bags, boxes and plastic cases containing contraband were on display at a news conference.

"What you see here is a fraction of what we found," Vernon said.

The two trailers used to ...

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