A Cedartown-area woman was jailed after a vehicle search during a traffic stop for a bent tag ended with officers finding methamphetamine, according to reports.

PCPD stopped a Chevrolet Silverado on Friday night just after 11:30 p.m. on South Main Street in Cedartown when the reporting officer got behind the truck during a patrol. The truck had a bent tag, and it was hard enough to read that when the officer stopped the pickup he believed the vehicle didn’t have insurance.

A further check found the truck was insured and up to date, and police were about to let everyone go with a warning for a defaced tag and ask the driver to work on getting a new one issued.

However during the stop, other officers arrived and got permission to search inside the vehicle. They found suspected methamphetamine and a used glass pipe inside the car on the passenger side where Tabitha Nicole Dodd, 38, of a Cedartown address, was sitting at the time.

Police questioned Dodd about the pipe, and officers noted that “she was acting in an extremely erratic manor such as sweating profusely and could not stay still or look away from the car while officers were searching.”

She was taken into custody after the pipe and meth were found, and was searched by a female Cedartown Police officer before being taken onward to the Polk County Jail and charged with felony possession of methamphetamine and misdemeanor possession and use of drug related objects.

Dodd remained in custody as of this posting on a $4,000 bond.