(Michigan City, IN) - A traffic stop ended up in drug charges for a Michigan City man.

A little after 4 pm Sunday afternoon, a Michigan City police officer pulled over a Chevy Malibu with an improperly displayed license plate on Poplar Boulevard near East Michigan Avenue. A certain smell from inside the vehicle told the officer that further investigation might be warranted.

While the driver, Marvin White Jr. (21), and his pregnant passenger waited outside the vehicle, police searched it. They allegedly found 24 pills suspected to be ecstasy, over 870 grams of marijuana, other THC products, a scale, plastic baggies, and a loaded Glock 17 with a chambered round. Police said, according to receipts inside the Malibu, the marijuana was purchased from a dispensary in New Buffalo. White told officers the gun was his mother’s, and he didn’t know the drugs were in the vehicle.

Police discovered that White has multiple other drug-related felony charges pending against him in two other counties. He has also been charged in Illinois, police said. White now facing three more drug charges, along with Unlawful Carrying of a Handgun, in La Porte Superior Court 1.