The confidential informant told Corporal Keye Wysocki that Lebron was using drugs and for several months had been giving the informant cash to purchase drugs for him. The informant reportedly saw Lebron snort cocaine several times in Delaware and Pennsylvania, providing details on the specific quantities Lebron would buy, according to the charging documents.

Lebron also began to pay the informant with cocaine to sell because his supervisors said he was paying the source too much money for assistance, the informant told Wysocki.

After meeting with the informant on the week of Aug. 7, state police had the informant arrange a deal with Lebron to provide the trooper with drugs from a local mushroom farmer who had cocaine of superior quality. Investigators gave the informant cocaine and the informant set up the deal for Aug. 12 at a McDonalds in New Garden Township, according to the charging documents.

Lebron arrived at the McDonalds in his state police-issued Subaru, driving around the parking lot to make sure he wasn't being watched. According to charging documents, Lebron then met with the informant and got 3.5 grams of cocaine from the informant. He then told the informant to go to Ollie's parking lot to provide him with cash for the cocaine had just purchased.

While weighing the cocaine, Lebron thought he saw a police officer in a red cap and told the informant to go to a nearby Dollar General to complete the transaction. State police observed the exchange and arrested Lebron shortly thereafter.

Lebron was not acting as a state police trooper when the drugs were purchased and all of the communications on Lebron's department-issued iPhone as well as the drug transaction were recorded, according to charging documents.

Lebron is charged with a felony count of criminal use of a communication facility as well as misdemeanor counts of possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. He is free on $5,000 bail.

The Chester County district attorney's office is prosecuting the case. Lebron is scheduled for a preliminary hearing at 9 a.m. Aug. 19.