HARRISBURG — An Allegheny County man has been charged following an investigation by the state attorney general’s office for allegedly stealing trucks from a Wexford Ford dealership and selling them for $7,500 apiece to drug dealers.

Perry Brown, 52, of Natrona Heights was a car salesman at Shults Ford in Wexford on Route 19.

Evidence in the case was presented to a state grand jury, which recommended Tuesday the criminal charges be filed.

Brown is charged with two counts of receiving stolen property, two counts of theft by unlawful taking, and one count of criminal use of a communication facility.

He was arraigned Tuesday on those charges by McCandless Township Magisterial District Judge William Wagner. His preliminary hearing is next Wednesday.

According to the grand jury, agents investigating drug trafficking rings in Western Pennsylvania noticed a number of drug suspects all driving vehicles from the same Ford dealership in Allegheny County.

The grand jury found that Brown not only sold stolen cars to the suspected drug dealers, but also sold stolen state inspection stickers.

Brown allegedly offered to sell undercover agents a set of 30 stickers, each set good for one year, for $1,200.

During the summer of 2012, undercover agents from the attorney general’s office arranged to buy a new truck, with a sticker price of $41,000 for $7,500, from Brown.

According to the grand jury, Brown also made arrangements to sell two additional pickup trucks, which he had allegedly stolen from the dealership. Brown was arrested when he arrived to deliver the vehicles.

Agents executed a search warrant at Brown’s Natrona Heights residence and found 250 state inspection stickers, 200 state emission stickers and a certificate of authenticity for a diamond ring, which had been reported stolen from a safe at Shults Ford.