A woman was already facing several charges after drugs were found inside her car during a Saturday traffic stop, but then added more when she tried to hide the identity of a man in her car who fled on foot before police could get her properly pulled over.

Officers arrested Jennifer Marie Head, 34, of a Cedartown address on Saturday, March 22 during a traffic stop on Antioch Road at Tate Road. Police came across their vehicle around 1:30 a.m. while driving in the opposite direction, and turned around, and then saw them cross the fog line as they continued onward.

Police caught up with the car that pulled over, but before they could complete the traffic stop a passenger had already fled from the stop on foot. The officer called for the Cedartown Police K-9 officer to come help track their suspect believed to be a man named “Toby,” but was later identified by Head’s statements at the Polk County Jail as a suspect police determined was Michael Stanley Shaw.

Unable to track down the man on foot, police returned their attention to Head and the stop. While some officers were searching for Shaw, others remained at the scene and looked through the car due to a suspected marijuana smell coming from inside. They found a jar with some marijuana inside, plus a bong and two syringes within. Police attempted to question Head about it, but reported that she was “irate” and claimed he had recently smoked marijuana.

While in custody heading to jail, police also noted that Head said without prompting another name “Shaw” while claiming she would “never give” him up.

Police looked into it further and just hours prior to the stop, officers attempted to serve Shaw with a warrant for his arrest on Johnson Lake Road at his residence, where Head had been at the time according to one of the officers involved in that attempted arrest.

Due to her claims of the passenger being another individual and “advising she would not give up Shaw” during her ride to jail, police added one more charge to her list of misdemeanors, and another to Shaw’s list of warrants.

Head remained in custody awaiting a bond hearing as of this posting on misdemeanor charges of willful obstruction of law enforcement officers, DUI – drugs less safe, failure to maintain lane and possession and use of drug-related objects.