A Cedartown woman was booked and later released after she fled from a traffic stop, but she could have driven away with warnings if only she had kept her temper based on Cedartown Police reports.

Brandy Angel Morris, 41, of a Cedartown address, was jailed by officers on September 23 for leaving a traffic stop when police tried to give her warnings for not replacing her tail light lenses that were broken and staying at a stop sign longer than was necessary.

A Cedartown Police officer stopped behind Morris for the tail light violation and for improperly parking at a stop sign, and was giving Morris warnings for the pair of infractions when she became upset during the encounter with officers at the corner of East Gibson Street and Jones Street on September 23.

She “threw the tickets in her passenger seat and drove off missing me by less than two feet,” the officer reported after handing over the warning slips. The officer yelled for her to stop that he wasn’t done with the traffic stop, but she cursed at him and fled.

The officer got back in his vehicle and followed Morris to Main Street, where a second officer joined in the short pursuit and blocked Morris. She turned into a parking lot and stopped.

When police tried to get her out of the Chrysler 300 she was driving, they first had to reach into her window and open the door, then resisted when the officer who first pulled her over tried to pull her out of the driver’s seat. Police warned her she would be tased, but still struggled and was shocked by the officer in the left shoulder.

Morris was then placed in cuffs and taken onward to the Polk County Jail.

She was later released on a $4,170 bond on misdemeanor charges of reckless driving, tag lights required, improper parking, fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer, no license on person, and resisting police officer.