A Cedartown man was jailed on several charges over the weekend when he was found with drugs and counterfeit money in his truck during a search amid a traffic stop, according to Polk County Police reports.

James Clinton Nix, 72, of 200 Cobb St., Cedartown, was taken into custody on Saturday, August 7 around 10:15 p.m. when officers with the PCPD stopped Nix and another man in a Dodge pickup truck they spotted traveling on Canal Street with a defective brake light and no valid tag.

Once stopped, police began to write up a ticket for Nix and an officer asked to search the truck which was declined. Police then asked if the passenger minded being searched, and he agreed and stepped out. When officers found less than an ounce of marijuana in his right pocket, police then had probable cause to search the rest of the truck.

That’s when officers found a Region’s bank slip that contained 18 $100 bills and 4 $50 bills that were reported to be counterfeit in his glove box, along with a pill bottle with four tablets of hydrocodone in a pill bottle with another person’s prescription.

Police released the suspect in the truck found with the marijuana but took Nix to jail after they found the counterfeit cash and pills.

He was later released on a $6,000 bond on charges of felony possession of schedule II controlled substance, along with misdemeanor charges of fourth-degree forgery, no brake lights or working turn signals, and an expired registration charge.