A man who was found around the impound area of the Det. Kristen Hearne Public Safety Complex and over the Polk County Sheriff’s Office guard line who was told to leave one and returned was arrested over the weekend with marijuana, according to Polk County Police reports.

Officers arrested James Calep Reddish, 30, of 3185 Parker Roberts Road, Cedartown on a trio of charges after he was reported by 911 to officers to be around the area and acting suspiciously.

Reddish was first spotted walking around the County’s IT Department between a pair of Ford F-150s, then was found in front of the impound area of the Public Safety Complex within the guard line of the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. Police called out to him as he stood staring at a Dodge Charger within the impound. He raised his hands and turned around, and officers noted he was acting erratically.

He told police he was walking home from Rockmart, didn’t have a ride and was told to vacate the area and he was pointed in the fastet route back home on foot.

Police watched as he headed toward Highway 27, but then he turned around and started looking at vehicles in the EMA parking lot, and “every few moments James looked back at myself and Officer Self until he ultimately defied Officer Self’s order to leave the Public Safety Complex by returning to the impound lot of the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. At this time James again crossed the guard line to look at the Charger again.”

When officers again approached Reddish, this time they decided to search him since he was over the Sheriff’s Office guard line for the jail. When they asked, Reddish admitted that he had two bags of marijuana in his pocket.

They took him into custody without further incident and he was booked into the Polk County Jail with a $2,000 bond set on misdemeanor and felony charges.

He remained in jail on a felony charge of crossing state/county guard lines with weapons, intoxicants, drugs without consent, and misdemeanor charges of possession of marijuana and loitering or prowling.