Police Dog Handler Banned For Life After Trying To Import Magic Mushrooms

A former South Wales Police officer has been banned for life from policing after his own force caught him attempting to import magic mushrooms from the Netherlands.

PC Ryan Llewellyn, 41, became a police officer in 2008 and seven years later joined the dog section of South Wales Police.

In 2024, he made an order online for 24.2 grams of psilocybin divided into 18 plastic capsules from a company in the Netherlands.

Unfortunately, the package was intercepted by a customs officer on arrival to the UK…

South Wales Police were alerted to the shipment, where an officer recognised Llewellyn’s name on the mailing address. Whoops.

A police sergeant disguised as a delivery driver brought a dummy parcel to Llewellyn’s home in Glynneath and sure enough, he happily received it.

Officers arrested Llewellyn immediately after he accepted the package.

He claimed he had thought he was buying mushroom truffles but analysis of his phone showed a Google search on whether it was illegal to import magic mushrooms to the UK, which pretty much killed his excuse completely.

From there, he argued he was facing a severe mental health crisis and ordered the capsules to attempt microdosing. Which wouldn’t necessarily be a bad idea, even for a police officer, but unfortunately, the U.K. is not quite there yet, legally speaking.

Aside from being barred from police work for life, Llewellyn was handed a 12-month community order and 100 hours of unpaid work.

Should have gone out and picked his own…