Two men were arrested early Thursday after they were found parked where they shouldn’t be sometime after midnight claiming car trouble, but instead were found to have drugs in the truck.

John Wesley Cash, 52, of 812B Church St., Rockmart, and Mark Benjamin Jones, 34, of 192 Brenda Circle, Rockmart, were both taken into custody by police after Polk County Police officers on patrol spotted a 2005 Nissan Frontier parked along a woodline at a property that had recently reported a car break-in and trespassing around their home.

Police pulled up to the pair at Highway 278 and Business 6, and they reported they were having car trouble without any signs of issues with the Nissan Frontier at all.

Suspicious, police believed they might have been involved in a potential theft and they might be “picking up a male subject that was caught on a trail camera committing the entering auto/damage to vehicle,” the report stated. One officer searched the area while another stayed with Jones and Cash.

Police didn’t find anyone else, but once back at the truck they were given consent by Cash to search his truck. Within they found “a glass smoking device” along with 3 grams of suspected meth, and baggies used to package the drug.

Both Cash and Jones denied the drugs were theirs, and they were placed under arrest by officers.

Once at the jail, deputies were told by Jones his real name. He had given a false name to officers at the scene and was charged additionally for doing so.

Cash remained in the Polk County Jail as of this posting on charges of felony possession of methamphetamine and possession of tools for the commission of a crime. He also was booked on a misdemeanor charge of possession and use of drug-related objects. He was being held on a $7,000 bond.

Jones – with an address listed as homeless by the Sheriff’s Office – has a $13,000 bond on a longer list of charges. Those included felonies for possession of methamphetamine and possession of tools for the commission of a crime and a felony bench warrant. He also has a misdemeanor pair of bench warrants, along with new charges of possession and use of drug-related objects, obstructing law enforcement officers, and giving false name, address, or birthdate to law enforcement officers.