A man tried to take off on foot with a bookbag with drugs inside in Cedartown last week was chased down and taken into custody faces multiple felony charges, according to Cedartown Police.

Polk County Police also helped out during the arrest of Katerryun Jamar Holliday, 21, of a Cedartown on Thursday, December 12 around 10:30 p.m. after they were forced to run through backyards to chase down Holliday and take him into custody, and discovered marijuana packaged for sale inside a bookbag he tried to toss away, the report stated.

Holliday was the driver behind the wheel of a 2008 Honda Civic that Cedartown Police stopped for just going slightly over the line when at a stop sign at the intersection of Thompson and Rock Streets in Cedartown. The officer then reported that they smelled the heavy odor of marijuana inside the car when conducting the stop.

The Cedartown officer who stopped Holliday and other passengers in the vehicle called for backup to get everyone out and conduct a search. While patting Holliday down to see if he had weapons or contraband on his person, they found a empty baggie.

The officer was then surprised to hear a rustling noise and watch as Holliday took off on foot. Both CPD and PCPD officers on scene gave chase, and ended up on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in people’s backyards seeking to stop Holliday.

He was caught and walked back to the scene, and when taken to jail they found 10 tablets of Ecstasy that he tried to conceal in his pants. The bookbag turned up a much larger amount of drugs, 66 different individual baggies of marijuana were found within at five grams apiece, a total of 330 grams (or just over 11 ounces,) two more 1 ounce bags, plus additional drug paraphernalia including scales for weighing out purchases.

Holliday was released from the Polk County Jail on a $32,000 bond on multiple felony and misdemeanor charges.

Those included possession of marijuana; possession with intent of a Schedule I or II controlled substance; purchase, possession, manufacture, distribution or sale of marijuana; two counts of obstructing law enforcement officers; tampering with evidence; crossing state/county guard lines with weapons, intoxicants, drugs without consent; possession of a schedule I controlled substance; possession of tools for commission of a crime; and failure to yield after stopping at stop sign.