A man pulled over for an equipment violation was searched and found to be hiding methamphetamine in a jacket pocket, according to Polk County Police reports filed on Wednesday.

Johnny Lee Hilliard, 42, of a Cedartown-area address, was jailed early Wednesday morning by police at the Bee Rite gas station at the corner of Prior Station Road and Adamson Road when he was pulled over by officers for tag light out.

Per the report, Hilliard was initially cooperative during the stop and even admitted he might have a knife in his truck. It was when police discovered his criminal history – a previous methamphetamine and gun possession charge – that they became suspicious and sought to search his vehicle with a K-9 officer.

Officers got Hilliard to come out of the car, and his actions gave police a reason to believe he might be concealing something on his person when he began moving around while being searched. When they got him under control and searched inside his jacket, they found another zipper bag within and he admitted there was a pipe inside.

Police found it, along with a “large shard of suspected methamphetamine” and placed him under arrest for the drug possession. A search of the vehicle found nothing else at the time, and was towed.

Hilliard remained in jail without bond set on a felony charge of possession of methamphetamine, and a misdemeanor charge of possession and use of drug-related objects.