A Sharon man who admitted accepting a Federal Express package loaded with pot has been sentenced to house arrest.

Michael R. Bruner, 27, was sentenced Wednesday to 6 to 24 months house arrest by Mercer County Common Pleas Court Judge Thomas R. Dobson.

Bruner pleaded guilty Oct. 7 to possession of five pounds, 13 ounces of marijuana with intent to deliver.

Charges of possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia and conspiracy to commit possession with intent to deliver were withdrawn.

Bruner was arrested June 24 in a North Hermitage Road parking lot.

Police said the drugs were detected by a drug-sniffing dog at a Federal Express warehouse in Youngstown and the case was turned over to the federal Drug Enforcement Agency.

The package was to be delivered to Standard Stream Printing, 910 Robertson Road, Hermitage, which is owned by Bruner, police said.

A DEA agent, under the guise of a Federal Express employee, contacted Bruner and asked Bruner to meet him in the parking lot, police said. He arrested Bruner once Bruner accepted the package.

The pot had a street value of $7,500, police said.

A search of Bruner's business turned up scales, bags and conversion tables, police said.

Bruner admitted at his plea hearing that he knew what was in the package, and has promised to cooperate with authorities in their investigation into the out-of-state source of the package.