DALTON, Ga. — A Dalton man wanted for a child molestation charge in Colorado tried to make a deal with a Dalton police officer. Another officer eventually busted open a window of the truck the man was in and the officers arrested him.

James Hawk, 49, was charged on Saturday by the Dalton Police Department with obstruction of an officer resulting in injury, driving while license is suspended or revoked, a tag violation and a seat belts violation (children 8 and under). Hawk was also placed on hold at the Whitfield County jail as a fugitive from justice for the child molestation charge.

According to an incident report, Officer Jacob Allen pulled the truck that Hawk was driving over on West Walnut Avenue at about 8:55 p.m. after noticing the decal on the tag appeared to be outdated and confirming that the tag had expired.

The truck pulled into the Burger King drive-thru and the male driver switched seats with a female. Allen noted in the report that there was a child in a rear-facing car seat in the front seat and three children in the back seat who were without child seats or seat belts, two under the age of 8.

The woman said she did not have a license with her and Hawk said “he did not have a license at all.” Hawk asked Allen “if there was any way to work this out.”

“I advised him not at this time and returned to my vehicle,” Allen wrote.

After finding the warrant from Colorado in a database and learning that Hawk’s license in Colorado had been suspended, Allen and Officer Clinton Travis went to arrest Hawk for driving on a suspended license, but Hawk wouldn’t get out of the car. He rolled the window up and down and would not unlock the door. Allen warned him the officers were going to break the window. Travis used a “window punch” to break the window, the door was unlocked and the two pulled Hawk from the vehicle and onto the ground, where he was handcuffed. Travis “received lacerations on his left hand” during “the altercation” and received treatment from Hamilton Medical Center.

Hawk was in the county jail Monday evening and was being held without bond on the fugitive from justice charge.