Whipped cream cans along Route 62 in Kiantone in 2024.

An arrest has been made regarding numerous whip cream cans that were being left on south county roads and some near the Pennsylvania state border.

On Wednesday, the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office conducted an investigation into the ongoing unlawful disposal of the items on multiple roads in the town of Kiantone. As a result of the investigation, Mackenzie W Tray, 34, of Kiantone, was charged June 14 with third-degree criminal tampering in the 3rd degree and 68 counts of littering on highway or adjacent lands.

He will be in the Town of Kiantone Court at a later date.

Those numerous cans left questions for many in late January 2024. Local mental health and resource officials believed the cans were being used for their nitrous oxide — an odorless, colorless and non-flammable gas.

Officials said several community partners have been contacted, and none reported hearing about an increase in the use of nitrous oxide, also known as whippets. They said the high obtained from inhaling the gas is “fairly short” and questioned whether the cans are being dumped by several people or perhaps one or two individuals over a period of time.