Drug charges against Cowboys' Peppi Zellner dropped

FORSYTH - Drug chages against Dallas Cowboys defensive end Peppi Zellner were dropped Monday after his brother claimed responsibility for having crack cocaine in their car. <br> <br> Monroe County Sheriff John Cary Bittick says Magistrate Judge Frank Wilder dismissed charges on the basis of a sworn statement from Mannon Lee Zellner Junior that said his brother knew nothing about drugs being in the car or being tossed from the vehicle. <br> <br> The Zellners were arrested Thursday by a narcotics investigators from the Bittick&#39;s officer and the Forsyth police Department. Peppi Zellner was released the next day on five-thousand dollars bond on a charge of possession of crack cocaine with intent to distribute. <br> <br> The 27-year-old Peppi Zellner is an unrestricted free agent, but the Cowboys have shown little interest in re-signing him. He was a fourth-round draft pick by the Cowboys in 1999 and a former star defensive end at Fort Valley State University in Forsyth.