Three men face drug charges — one for felony possession — after Butler police say they turned up suspected crack cocaine and prescription painkillers following a traffic stop last month.

Police on Monday charged Cody L. Holland, 24, and Timothy J. Kovocovsky, 52, both of Butler; and Devante D. Biggers, 22, of Columbus, Ohio.

Patrolman William Dobson was on patrol about 10:25 p.m. Oct. 17 in the area of South Chestnut Street near West Diamond Street when he noticed a car with a burned out license plate light.

The officer stopped the vehicle that Kovocovsky was driving, police said. Dobson recognized Holland, a front seat passenger, from a previous case just a week earlier.

Biggers, who was riding in the back, according to court documents, appeared to be trying to hide a pill bottle under one of his feet. He eventually handed over the bottle that did not have a label on it.

All three occupants denied the bottle and its contents — the painkiller tramadol — were theirs.

Police subsequently searched the men. Holland was allegedly found with a plastic bag stuffed in the sock on his right foot. The bag contained what appeared to be crack cocaine, documents said.

The weight of the suspected crack, 4.3 grams, and the manner in which it was packaged, police said, led Dobson to believe it was not only for personal use.

He is charged with possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, a felony.

Holland also was found with a crack pipe, police said, and Chore Boy copper scrubber, which is commonly used to filter drug-smoking pipes.

For those items, police said, he is charged with possession of drug paraphernalia.

Police charged all three men with misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance in connection with the bottle of tramadol pills.

Dobson also Monday charged Holland in an unrelated misdemeanor drug case Oct. 12 when he arrested the defendant on a bench warrant while on patrol on Wyle Avenue.

Holland was searched and found with crack, a crack pipe and Chore Boy, documents said. He is charged with possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia.

He was placed in the Butler County Prison for the warrant, authorities said, and released Oct. 15.