A 33-year-old Ypsilanti man pleaded guilty Wednesday in Lenawee County Circuit Court to a fraud charge after selling a backpack full of dirty socks he presented as a $2,800 load of weed, according to a report on Lenconnect.com.



The socks sold as marijuana were perhaps not as filthy as these featured in an MLive file photo, but dirty nonetheless.

Michael Rafael Suarez, 33, and Ypsilanti couple Joshua Wayne Cope, 37, and Rebecca Sue Sharp, 34, are accused of driving down to a Rasin Township mobile home park to make the fraudulent sock deal with a man and a woman July 8, the report says.

"I didn't bring any weed," Suarez told the judge, according to the Lenconnect report. "I brought a bag of dirty socks."

Suarez pleaded guilty to false pretenses between $1,000 and $20,000 and faces up to 7.5 years in prison, the report states.

Read the full report for more details.

John Counts covers crime and breaking news for The Ann Arbor News. He can be reached at johncounts@mlive.com or you can follow him on Twitter. Find all Washtenaw County crime stories here.