A traffic stop on Wednesday led Picayune Police Department investigators to a home that was the scene of a plethora of alleged illegal activity.

Detective Michael Odom said the traffic stop occurred Wednesday afternoon when a patrolman saw two suspects in a vehicle traveling east on Mississippi 43 North. The officer pulled over the vehicle on an on ramp to Interstate 59 because the individuals in the car were not wearing seatbelts. The officer smelled the odor of burnt marijuana emanating from the car and observed the suspects acting in a nervous manner as he approached the vehicle after pulling it over.

The two suspects, identified as Lenden Anthony, 32, of 100 Parkway North Dr., and Demetrius Washington, 29, of 37326, both of Slidell, La., were asked to step out of the vehicle while a search was conducted. A large block of uncut cocaine was recovered from Lenden’s person during the search, Odom said. Lenden and Washington were both charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute.

Investigators watching a home located at 109 Willow St. had observed the vehicle involved in the traffic stop leave the home just before it was pulled over. Odom said the home was already under surveillance and the traffic stop gave officers enough evidence to secure a search warrant for the home, where 36 year-old Robert Kevin White resides.

During the search the investigators found a cookie-and-a-half of crack cocaine, two handguns with the serial numbers filed off, assorted pills and codeine, bags of marijuana, a wad of cash, a beaker believed to be used in the production of crack cocaine and digital scales. White’s Ford F-150 was seized since officers was believed it was used to facilitate narcotics sales, Odom said.

White was charged with two felony counts of possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute within 1,500 feet of a school or church, three counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, felony conspiracy to sell a controlled substance, and a five misdemeanor charges of possession of a controlled substance. Odom said he expects federal charges to be pressed against White by the ATF for the possession of the two handguns with filed-off serial numbers.

White’s girlfriend, Jacqueline Simmons, 34, of 109 Willow St., also was charged during the search. She was charged with two felony counts of possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute within 1,500 feet of a school or church, five possession of controlled substance misdemeanors, possession of paraphernalia and felony conspiracy to sell a controlled substance.