Man who sold a backpack full of dirty socks for $2,800 as marijuana has been charged for fraud

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Michael Rafael Suarez, 33, have been charged for fraudulent practice after passing a bag full of dirty socks as marijuana and selling to a Ypsilanti couple for $2,800. Suarez who pleaded guilty faces up to 7.5 years in prison with a habitual offender count added to his fraud conviction. He admitted having two prior felony convictions.
According to the report on Lenconnet, it all started when Suarez got a call from a friend who told him to bring a pound of marijuana. The friend had some people waiting to buy.
“I didn’t bring any weed,” Suarez said. “I brought a bag of dirty socks.”
A purse containing $2,800 cash taken from the would-be marijuana buyers was found in the car with Suarez, Joshua Wayne Cope, 37, and Rebecca Sue Sharp, 34, also of Ypsilanti.
The three were stopped by a Raisin Township police officer as they sped away from the mobile home park and ran a stop sign on Gady Road at Occidental Highway. During the traffic stop, a man pulled up in a car and told the officer his girlfriend was just robbed by the people in the vehicle.
Cope and Sharp, who are married, both pleaded guilty to attempted possession of marijuana with intent to deliver.
The $2,800 impounded as evidence will now be subject to a civil drug seizure claim, said Raisin Township Police Chief Kevin Grayer.