Indians pitcher Chris Perez and his wife Melanie have been charged with a misdemeanor count of possession of a controlled substance after a search warrant was served at their Rocky River home Tuesday. Read more after the jump.
Police said the evidence examined from two suspicious packages delivered to the home and two mason jars inside his home contained a total of 163.9 grams — or a little more than a third of a pound — of marijuana. Chris Perez admitted marijuana found in his home was for his own use, the police report said.
The Perez delivery, addressed to a “Brody Baum” and sent as priority mail from Los Angeles, was cited by Postal Inspector Marc Kudley for a smell of marijuana, according to a United States Postal Service report. A Cleveland police drug-sniffing K-9 confirmed the smell. Baum is Melanie Perez’s maiden name, according to the report.
On Monday, the USPS obtained federal search warrants for the parcel, which contained marijuana concealed in four separate resealable bags greased in Vaseline, two plastic resealable containers and wrapped in a shirt.
Investigators from Westshore Enforcement Bureau and Kudley, acting undercover as a USPS Letter Carrier, carried out the search warrant Tuesday. Kudley presented the parcel to Melanie Perez who said it was for their dog named “Brody.”
