CHELSEA — A pair of men driving near Union Square with a hefty amount of drugs led police to their stash when officers noticed a heavy smell of marijuana coming from their car and pulled them over, according to police.
Kevin Aviles, 37, of Brooklyn, and Edwin Rivera, 25, of Queens, were busted with dozens of vials of cocaine, envelopes of heroin and more than 100 prescription pills after police pulled Aviles over at West 17th Street and Sixth Avenue at about 8:20 p.m. on Aug. 9, according to the criminal complaint.
Aviles was driving a rental car with Massachusetts license plates when officers noticed the smell of pot coming from the car and pulled him over, police said.
A glance inside the car revealed an open alcohol bottle in the center console, and a further search unearthed a cornucopia of drugs, police said. In a bag on Rivera’s seat, officers found three plastic baggies and 29 vials of cocaine, six “bundles” of heroin and a vial of coke in his pocket, police said.
Officers spotted Rivera pulling a bag from his underwear that ended up containing 50 baggies of heroin, a bag of marijuana and 128 Xanax pills, according to a criminal complaint.
Officers found another vial of cocaine in the center console of the car, the complaint said.
Prosecutors charged the two men with possession of narcotics with intent to sell, a spokeswoman for the Manhattan District Attorney’s office said.
A judge ordered Aviles held on $15,000 bail and Rivera held on $2,500 bail. Both paid bail and were released on Aug. 11, two days after their arrest.
Lawyers for the men did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
