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WHEN police recently raided North Carolina’s South Side Baptist Church, operated by pastor Josh Price, 50, and his son Matthew, 28, inset above, they found cannabis plants, “magic mushrooms” and other substances.

In a Facebook post, Davidson County Sheriff’s Office announced:

On Sunday May 28th 2023, Deputies with the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Division along with Detectives from the Special Investigations Division, conducted a drug investigation at 1014 Floyd Church Road, Lexington (South Side Baptist Church). Deputies received information that Josh Price who resides in the Fellowship Hall behind the church was manufacturing Marijuana. The church had not been in operation and had been closed since COVID.

Upon further investigation, deputies searched the property and seized about 12 pounds of marijuana, about 32 grams of psilocybin mushrooms, 41 THC vape pens, 20 marijuana plants and about 2 pounds of tetrahydrocannabinol wax (THC wax).

Deputies arrested Matthew and Josh Price of Lexington during the course of the investigation. They were charged with Manufacturing Marijuana, Trafficking in Marijuana, Possession with Intent to Sell & Deliver THC wax, (3) counts of Felony Maintaining a Dwelling, Possession with Intent to Sell & Deliver Marijuana, and Conspiracy to Traffic Marijuana. Both Matthew and Josh Price have a court date of July 25th, 2023 in Davidson County District Court.

According to Christianity Daily, the pastor told officers that the church had not been open and had stopped its operation since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

However, former members claimed that the Josh Price had shuttered the parish before the pandemic started.

Congregant said he warned church

Image via YouTube/WBTV News

USA Today reported that Mike Lambeth, above, a member of the church, said that he had attempted to warn the congregation about Josh Price when he first arrived at the church three years ago. He told WBTV News:

I met him one time, and our spirits didn’t bear witness at all, and I did not think he was a pastor, and I told a lot of the members there, ‘y’all better watch out for him’.

He also claimed that it was at the church he “got saved.”

Another church member, Leon Little, added that the church was down to five members, and four of those were part of the Price family.

He also stated that he and his family left a few years after the church members chose Price as their leader instead of his father.

Right after Price took over the congregation, people started reporting “strange occurrences.”

My own take on this “crime”: it’s good to see a church put to good use.

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