One person was booked and another was jailed and later released on bond following a June 21 traffic stop that ultimately yielded more than an ounce of marijuana and other drugs seized and multiple felony charges filed.

Rockmart Police reported that Tinnay Bonnell Smith, 32, of Woodstock and Brian Anthony Smith, 46, of Dallas, were both charged with felonies after a traffic stop late on the evening of June 21 began when Brian Smith behind the wheel of a Mercury Sable when the pair were pulled over for lapsed tag registration.

The car stopped for officers just past Springdale Road on Highway 278 on the Tuesday night, and asked for information from Brian Smith and his passenger Tiffany.

The officer reported smelling marijuana coming from the car – which Smith said was his mother’s, and he wasn’t aware of the lapsed registration – and backup arrived to help with the traffic stop which was quickly developing into an arrest for drug possession.

When police confronted both about the odor of contraband coming from the car, the officer noted that “I explained that honesty would be key for us going forward and if the amount of marijuana was found under the state’s felony amount of one ounce, I would work with them as best as I could.”

Brian Smith told police he had marijuana in the car, told them where it was and that it was under the felony limit. They also both verbally told police that there was nothing else in the car.

However, officers ultimately found the bag of marijuana, a joint, additional buds in the driver’s side floorboard, and pills including several doses of oxycodone.

Officers confronted the pair with what the search yielded, and Brian Smith took responsibility for the marijuana. The other drugs found Tiffany Smith took the charges for, and she was immediately cuffed and taken to jail on multiple felony charges.

Police allowed Brian Smith to go at the time with the warning that if the total amount of marijuana exceeded an ounce, they would press additional charges.

It turned out that was the case, and he was taken into custody at the Polk County Jail on Thursday, June 30 on a felony marijuana charge. He was being held on a $5,000 bond as of this posting.

Tiffany Smith also turned over additional drugs that were found in her person after she told the reporting officer that she had contraband before being taken in by booking staff at the jail.

Jail staff ultimately recovered a glass pipe “with a rock later identified as crack cocaine” which was turned over to Rockmart Police for evidence.