Officers who pulled over the car in the early hours of Sunday morning noticed a “white powdery substance” on a passenger’s nose.

The officers from Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office in Florida subsequently administered a field test which returned a positive result for cocaine.

Fabricio Jimenez, 20, was then searched and officers allegedly found a small bag of cocaine in his shoes and 250 grams of cannabis and 13 pills in his backpack.

The sheriff’s office said he “attempted to tell the deputies the cocaine on his nose was not his”, The Smoking Gun reports.

Mr Jimenez did not elaborate and is now facing three felony narcotics possession charges.