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.

Other arrests

Moultrie Police

• Jeremy Deshaun Murray, 34, 601 Fourth Ave. S.W., was charged with burglary Wednesday on a Muscogee County warrant.

• Lenora Rosetta Powell, 30, 203 W. Union Circle, Doerun, was charged Wednesday with interlock probation violation.

• Phillip Bryan Potter, 55, 404 Seventh Ave. S.W., was charged Monday with driving while license suspended, suspended registration, possession of methamphetamine and making a false statement.

Berlin Police

• Tyler Aubrey Wood, 19, 1051 Crosland-Scooterville Road, Omega, was charged Tuesday with possession of methamphetamine.

• Hannah Betty Wisham, 22, 1188 Highway 319 South, was charged Tuesday with possession of methamphetamine and possession of a drug-related object.

• Jesus Eduardo Perez, 22, 330 Indian Creek Subdivision, was charged Wednesday with driving without a license, no insurance, improper plate, speeding in a highway work zone and driving while tag suspended.

Sheriff’s Office

• Rocky Lee Wise, 27, and Rena Tiffany Hart, 28, both of 1168 Hall Road, were charged Tuesday with possession of a drug-related object, theft by taking and two counts possession of less than an ounce of marijuana. The charges are in connection with two separate incidents, one on Jan. 26 and the other on Tuesday.

• Two juveniles were arrested Tuesday morning following a fight at Willie J. Williams Middle School, 950 Fourth St. S.W. The deputy’s report included no details of the incident, and the juveniles’ identities were not released because of their ages.

Thefts

Moultrie Police

• Abigail Martinez, of Moultrie, reported the theft of $22.40 worth of meat from a storage area of a home in the 700 block of 10th Avenue Southeast.

Property damage

Moultrie Police

• Justin Lee Martin, of Moultrie, reported Wednesday that his 2003 Cadillac Seville was keyed while parked in the 500 block of Fourth Street Northwest. Martin said he’d parked the car in the back yard of a residence there on Tuesday because it had a flat tire; he found the damage when he returned Wednesday to inflate the tire.

Damage was estimated at more than $500, police said.

• Larry Willford, of Albany, reported Wednesday that someone apparently tried to break into a house in the 900 block of Second Avenue Northwest. Willford was checking the property Wednesday for the owner, Brenda Soloman, when he found the back door damaged in the apparently unsuccessful break-in attempt. The air conditioning unit was also damaged, as if someone had stood on it, police said.

Damage was estimated at $100.