Police: Man said fake drugs at Bonnaroo were ‘God’s Work’

MANCHESTER, Tenn. — A man accused of bringing more than a thousand doses of fake drugs to the Bonnaroo music festival said he was doing “God’s Work” with the bogus substances, Tennessee authorities said Thursday.

The Coffee County Sheriff’s Department David E. Brady of Albany, New York, has been charged with two counts of counterfeit controlled substances.

Brady, 45, is accused of attracting the attention of deputies after they spotted what looked like drugs under a tent. The deputies saw Brady toss the item behind him as they approached, and he appeared to have a bag of mushrooms hanging from his waist band as he stood up, a press release from Lucky Knott, a spokesman for the sheriff’s department said.

Items Brady brought to the music festival included pills made to look like ecstasy, 22 bags of fake mushrooms, about 1,000 hits of fake acid and counterfeits made to look like cocaine and an incense stick of black tar heroin.