According to court documents, on August 4, 1994, Chase told Moroz to drive across the border to Bellingham, Washington, to pick up a package at Federal Express. The gofer claims he "was suspicious because I had picked up a similar package...and Mr. Chase had appeared to be 'stoned' on the set a few days after receiving that package."
Nonetheless, he retrieved the package--but opened it and and said he found 100 large white pills. Moroz was so nervous when he tried to cross the border back into Canada that he attracted the attention of customs officials. Police then arrested him for possessing the prescription drug Percocet without a prescription. The drug is one of the painkillers Chase said he was addicted to when he registered at the Betty Ford Center in the mid '80s.
Moroz claims the arrest ruined his career, even though the charges against him were dropped; a Washington judge said he was only acting under orders from Chase. "I have never had another cast-driving job since this incident," he said in court documents, and a helicopter business he owned has suffered. He is suing for breach of contract, fraud and conspiracy.
Chase's lawyers have yet to file a rebuttal to Moroz's claims, and they did not return phone calls today.
Shortly after he left the Betty Ford clinic, Chase said that he became addicted to painkillers after injuring his back from too many pratfalls in his Saturday Night Live days. Last year, he pleaded no contest to a drunk driving charge in Beverly Hills.