A Carrollton woman who told police she was lost when pulled over for an expired tag trying to get from one daughter’s house to another ultimately was to remain in Polk County without going any further after police searched her vehicle on Monday night and found a variety of pills in her possession, per the Polk County Police.

Kristy Johnson, 54, of 105 Ranier Court, Carrollton, was charged with multiple felony and misdemeanor offenses when she was stopped Monday evening after being spotted Highway 27 at Lees Chapel Road in Cedartown in a 2006 Nissan Altima with expired registration.

Police spotted her while patrolling around 9 p.m. on Monday, October 18 and pulled her over for the registration problem at the intersection with Highway 27 and Knight Road.

Johnson immediately told police that she was lost “and her phone had her all turned around,” and also admitted she understood that her registration was expired. She told officers she was trying to get to Heflin, Alabama, where her daughter lived but at times changed her story and said Anniston, which police noted in their report, and had been coming from Cleveland, Tennessee, where she had been staying with another daughter.

Cedartown Police then arrived on the scene shortly after the stop was conducted to help, and got permission from Johnson to search the car.

Police reported finding a pill bottle with another person’s prescription on it for Hydrochlorothiazide Lisinopril, with 33 tablets inside. They alos found another allergy pill bottle with multiple pills inside as well.

Officers found that the second bottle had Quetiapine Furnarate, Hydroxyzine Pamoate, and Gabapentin within.

She told officers that she had been stopped in Tennessee earlier for the registration issue, and that she had been told keeping various pills in bottles as she was doing “was not a good idea.”

Officers continued searching and also found another pill in a headphone case later found to be Temazepam, and then another black pouch with a straw, containing tiny amounts of suspected methamphetamine and a digital scale. Police noted in their report they planned to send the straw and scale off for testing by the GBI Crime Lab after Johnson claimed the scale had been used for marijuana.

After further questioning and unable to get a clear answer about where she was going, and with the drugs police had found, Johnson was taken into custody by Polk County Police and taken to jail without further incident.

Before her car was towed and while officers were filling out an inventory sheet, they noticed that the tag sticker for her Altima did have a 2022 sticker, but that it had been cut off from another tag and applied to Johnson’s car. Police confirmed this since the decal didn’t match her tag number.

As of this posting, Johnson remained in jail on felony and misdemeanor charges with bond denied.

Included among her charges are 39 separate counts of sale, manufacture, deliver or possess dangerous drugs, possession of methamphetamine, possession of tools for the commission of a crime. Misdemeanor charges included traffic charges for expired registration, and additionally for alteration or improperly transferred tags, and drugs not in the original container.