Lansdale crack-cocaine suspect headed for trial

Correy Perry, 24, faces five criminal counts in connection with alleged drug-dealing activities

LANSDALE >> A Lansdale man accused of dealing crack cocaine in the borough is headed for trial in county court after waiving his preliminary hearing on June 4.

Correy Maurice Perry, 24, of the 100 block of Penn Street — who is free on 10 percent of $5,000 bail — arrived with his lawyer at Lansdale district court and opted to waive his hearing before District Judge Ken- neth Deatelhauser.

All five charges lodged against Perry earlier this year — felony counts of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and criminal use of a communication facility, as well as misdemeanor counts of possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and receipt in commerce — now head to Montgomery County court for trial, as prosecutors declined to withdraw any of the criminal counts.

Detectives with the Lansdale police Street Crimes Unit have said that their probe into Perry’s alleged drug-dealing activities began in May of 2014, when Lansdale officers responding to a reported overnight disturbance on South Broad Street came upon Perry and another man and spotted 10 small bags of crack cocaine at the pair’s feet. Both Perry and the other man denied the crack was theirs, police said.

Last September, according to court documents, borough detectives received information that an individual who lives on Penn Street, who was soon identified as Perry, was selling crack cocaine in the area.

That month, police also received word of a planned drug deal in the borough between Perry and another person that was arranged by cell phone, and Street Crimes Unit detec- tives set up an operation in which they allegedly observed Perry sell drugs to the individual, then subsequently recovered from the customer a plastic bag with a substance that later tested positive for crack cocaine.

A warrant for Perry’s arrest was issued on Feb. 19, and he was taken into custody and arraigned on March 4.

Perry’s formal arraignment in county court is scheduled for July 22.