MOULTRIE, Ga. — Moultrie police weren’t looking for Jaquez Hardy Wednesday, but when he tried to run from them they found he had a warrant for his arrest.

Two officers were at Paradise Apartments, looking for another person. They knocked on the door of the apartment they expected to find him at, and Hardy answered the door. They asked him if the person they were looking for was inside, and Hardy said he was not — but he offered to take the officers to the man’s apartment, elsewhere in the same complex.

While the door was open, police said, the officers smelled what they thought was marijuana coming from inside.

Hardy took the officers to another apartment, the MPD report said. One went upstairs to knock on the apartment door while the other officer stayed downstairs with Hardy. While the second officer was talking with him, Hardy allegedly took off running.

Police said he was caught after a short foot chase, at which point he told them he had a warrant for his arrest on a probation violation.

A third officer arrived, and Hardy was put into her patrol car. While two of the officers were securing him in the car, they saw someone else running from the scene. That person wasn’t caught.

That third officer took Hardy to jail, while the two original officers returned to the apartment he’d been in because the door had been left open.

The officers swept through the apartment to make sure no one had entered while the door was open, and they found multiple clear plastic bags; two of the bags contained a green, leafy substance, police said.

An investigator was called, and he and the original officers secured the apartment and sought a search warrant. They were able to contact the person who actually rents the apartment, and she gave them permission to search it. The police report said contraband was located during that search, but it didn’t clarify if that was the bags of suspected marijuana police had already seen or if it was something else.

Hardy, 20, of 278 S. Railroad St., Norman Park, was charged with possession of a controlled substance and obstruction of a law enforcement officer, according to the incident report. Warrants were not available from the Colquitt County Jail Thursday afternoon to get official charges.