A Nesquehoning couple faces multiple drug charges stemming from a search of their West Columbus Avenue residence last year.

Vito Kevin Focht and his wife Linda Lutz-Focht, both 51, are each charged with four counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance and one count each of possession with intent to manufacture or deliver a controlled substance, criminal conspiracy and possession of drug paraphernalia.Officers from Nesquehoning, Lansford, Mahoning Township and Jim Thorpe police departments joined Charles Horvath, a narcotics agent from the Pennsylvania Attorney General's office, in searching the home as part of a drug trafficking investigation.Only Vito's son, Mark Focht, was home during the sweep at 9:40 a.m. April 25, 2014, according to an affidavit of probable cause available at Magisterial District Judge Casimir Kosciolek's office in Lansford.Seized from the master bedroom were digital scales, rolling papers, a side-by-side shotgun with an 18-inch barrel, baggies with resin, a marijuana grinder with green vegetable matter inside it, a baggie with white powder, a baggie with a clear rock or crystal substance, pills, hemostats, multiple bowls with burnt marijuana resin and other items.Mark Focht told police he smoked marijuana in his bedroom, where a homemade tin foil bowl with burnt resin was seized.Vito was on his way home around 12:20 p.m., when his BMW was stopped by police on New Columbus Hill.The vehicle was searched and inside officers found four handguns. He was transported to the residence where Nesquehoning Police Chief Sean Smith told him he had, "multiple controlled buys from him selling crystal methamphetamine."Vito asked if it "was the chick he was with who set him up?"Nesquehoning police did arrest him on separate charges after he sold crystal meth to undercover officers three times in 2014.Vito told police some of the drugs, which he said were cocaine, found inside the master bedroom belonged to him. The others, he said, belonged to his wife.Officers ran several tests on the items seized from the home.According to Smith, the clear rock like substance had a negative reaction for amphetamine, the white powdery substance had a negative reaction for cocaine, the green vegetable matter in the grinder tested positive for marijuana, the resin in Mark Focht's pipe tested positive for marijuana, and the pill tested positive for Zolipedem, a narcotic.Vito and Linda are scheduled for preliminary hearings in front of Kosciolek on April 29 at 1:30 p.m.