NORTH ATTLEBORO - A 27-year-old man faces arraignment on drug charges in Attleboro District Court today after he allegedly picked up a parcel package containing five pounds of high-grade marijuana.

Joseph Santos Jr. of Rochester was arrested Wednesday in the driveway of his parents' home on Paine Road by local and state police detectives assigned to the Bristol County district attorney's office, North Attleboro Detective Lt. David Dawes said.

Santos's parents had no knowledge of their son's alleged activity, Dawes said.

Rhode Island authorities learned about the contents of the package, which was mailed from California, after a Rhode Island State Police drug-sniffing dog "alerted" to the package at a UPS facility in Warwick, R.I., Dawes said. Rhode Island State Police obtained a search warrant for the package and then contacted Massachusetts authorities who then continued the investigation, Dawes said.

After the package was delivered, police set up a surveillance and arrested Santos around 3 p.m. in his parents' driveway.

"He showed up, picked up the package and put it in his car," Dawes said.

The package contained five one-pound plastic packages of high-grade marijuana estimated to be worth $15,000, Dawes said.

Santos was ordered held at the police station overnight on $10,000 cash bail pending arraignment today on charges of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, possession of marijuana, and drug possession in a school zone, Dawes said.

The home is near the Allen Avenue School.