AKRON, Ohio -- A UPS delivery person delivered a four-pound shipment of marijuana to an Akron home while police were at the home searching for evidence of drug dealing.

Andrew Palmer, 46, is charged with trafficking marijuana, possessing marijuana and possessing weapons as a felon. He is free on a $25,000 surety bond.

Akron drug detectives on April 21 intercepted a package of $18,000 sent from Palmer's McKinley Avenue home to someone in California, according to court records.

Investigators went to Palmer's home the next day. Palmer let the detectives inside his home, according to court records. Police reported the home smelled of marijuana and that they saw marijuana in a glass jar inside Palmer's home.

Palmer admitted to smoking marijuana shortly before police arrived. Investigators also noted a smoked marijuana cigar in an ashtray.

Police obtained a judge's permission to search the home for drugs. While they were searching the home, UPS delivered a package to the home that had four pounds of marijuana inside, according to court records.

Police reported finding $24,495 inside the home, along with three loaded guns, ammunition, containers filled with marijuana and digital scales, according to court records.

Palmer has a criminal history that extends more than 20 years. His first adult felony conviction happened in 1987, when he pleaded guilty to aggravated assault. He was originally sentenced to probation but he violated the court-ordered terms. He was then sentenced to between one and five years in prison.

Since he's been convicted of receiving stolen property, aggravated drug trafficking, fleeing from police and assault.

He served four years in prison for his most recent conviction in 2001 for selling crack cocaine in the same home as a child.