Bryan Perri

State police are seeking a suspected crack cocaine dealer after they say a search of his home in Butler turned up drugs and a rifle.

Bryan Andrew Perri, 28, is wanted on a felony arrest warrant that PSP vice officers obtained Tuesday.

Perri earlier this year became the target of a drug trafficking investigation. Police said they learned that he was selling crack cocaine from his home on the 100 block of Mercer Street.

They also believed he had guns in his house. Because he is a felon, Perri is prohibited from possessing firearms.

According to court documents a police informant in August bought crack at Perri's house as part of a controlled drug buy.

Investigators on Oct. 5 obtained a search warrant for the home, where they found a plastic baggie of suspected marijuana in the freezer, several pills in a lock box, and four baggies containing an unknown substance.

They also seized a .22-caliber rifle, ammunition, a set of brass knuckles, two digital scales and $120 in currency that was in a safe.

Perri is charged with an unlawful possession of a firearm, a felony, and possession of a small amount of marijuana and drug paraphernalia and possession of a prohibited offensive weapon, all misdemeanors.

Perri is on state parole in a 2008 case for selling heroin and a revolver to an undercover police officer in Butler Township.

Court records showed that he was sentenced to serve 30 to 60 months in state prison, followed by 10 years of probation.

Perri, meanwhile, is scheduled to appear Oct. 16 for a preliminary hearing on charges stemming from an Aug. 31 burglary at a home on Wilson Avenue in Butler.