Pizza boy delivers pot to deputies

Police say a local pizza delivery boy has been giving some customers more than just a large pepperoni special.
Working on information received from an earlier drug sting at McBurney Apartments in Corbin, the Whitley County Sheriff’s Department learned that Darell G. Perry, 23, of 207 Poplar St., was allegedly delivering marijuana to people and using pizza boxes to disguise the drugs.
“It was just a known thing up in Corbin with the drug dealers,” Whitley County Sheriff Lawrence Hodge said of Perry’s alleged practice of bringing marijuana to customers in pizza boxes. “They know where the dope is.”
Hodge said he doesn’t know how long Perry’s been selling marijuana this way, but said he learned of it about a month ago.
Using an undercover informant, the department called and ordered a quarter pound of marijuana from Perry. After making the call, Perry arrived at the scene 30 minutes later carrying a pizza box.
Perry was arrested at the scene.
Also arrested and charged at the scene was Derrick J. Schweingruber, 22, of 203 Padgett Street in Corbin. Hodge said Schweingruber was driving the car the two men were delivering in.
“They changed vehicles,” Hodge said. “The guy we bought off of works for that Snappy Tomato place, but they delivered in another car. The driver had his Snappy Tomato work shirt on, carrying the pizza box.”
Both men were charged with trafficking in a controlled substance in or near a school zone, trafficking in a controlled substance (Oxycontin) and trafficking in marijuana eight ounces or less.
Hodge said he doesn’t know who has been supplying Perry with marijuana, but suspects “it’s close.”
“I wish we did.”
He added enough information was not obtained from the investigation to get a search warrant for either Perry’s or Schweingruber’s residence.
Hodge and Deputy Scott Lake are leading the investigation. Officers from the Corbin Police Department assisted at the scene.
More arrests are expected in the case.