Nesquehoning police have charged a Mahanoy City man with drug offenses after police noticed he had 12 air fresheners hanging from the vents in his car and several open bottles of cologne.

Jean Carlos Semprit-Perez, 19, is charged with possession of controlled substances, possession of drug paraphernalia, and speeding.According to an affidavit of probable cause filed with District Judge Casimir Kosciolek of Lansford, here's what happened:At 4 p.m. Tuesday, Police Chief Sean Smith was sitting in his cruiser on Route 93 near the state game lands, checking the speeds of passing vehicles.At about 4:15 p.m., he saw a green Chevy Impala speeding south in the 55 mph zone. Smith clocked the car's speed at 70.1 mph.He pulled the car over at the game lands parking lot and asked the driver for his license and registration. While he was looking for the documents, Smith saw 12 air fresheners hanging from the vents. Despite the aromatic gadgets, Smith could smell marijuana.Semprit-Perez gave him his information, and Smith took it back to his cruiser. The man had no outstanding warrants, so Smith wrote him a ticket for speeding.He asked Perez to get out of the car, which he did. Smith read him his rights, and asked him where he was headed and where he had come from. Perez said he was coming from Mahanoy City to Hazleton to see a friend.A front seat passenger was identified as Felix Pagan-Arroyo. He did not speak English.Smith asked the men if they had any contraband in the car, and both said no, with Perez translating for Arroyo. While speaking with Arroyo, Smith could smell a strong odor of marijuana, and noticed open bottles of cologne next to the gear shift.Arroyo was not wanted for any crimes, so Smith handed Perez the ticket, and confronted him about the marijuana smell."I'm not going to lie. I do smoke bud in my car all the time. But I didn't today," Perez told him.Smith asked him again if there were any drugs in the car or if he had used any that day, and Perez denied both.He asked Perez and Arroyo if he could search them and the car and they agreed. He called Weatherly police for backup.Nothing was found on either man, but in the car, Smith found an unmarked pill bottle with nine blue pills stamped "100;" one white pill with no markings in the console; a Garcia Vega package with one cigar in it; $480 under the stereo next to paraphernalia; a clear plastic bag with resin under the stereo; a yellow shopping bag containing a clear plastic bag with green vegetable matter, which later proved to be marijuana, behind the dash board and in the passenger side heater.Perez apologized for lying.