LIVE OAK, Fla. — A car pulling through a parking lot to bypass a red light Monday led to a foot chase and a pair arrested on numerous drug charges as well as child neglect and weapons charges.

A Live Oak police officer spotted 26-year-old Thomas James Sperry, of Wellborn, pull through the Pan’s Food Mart parking lot on Ohio Ave. S, and onto Helvenston Street rather than wait at the red light at the intersection around 11:30 a.m. Monday.

When the officer turned around, the suspect stopped on the side of Helvenston St. and exited the vehicle, according to the LOPD report, allegedly telling the officer he needed to re-secure his trunk and that there weren’t any parking spots available to use.

The report states the parking lot he drove through had plenty of room and that there appeared to be nothing wrong with the trunk of the car.

When the officer asked for his license, the suspect said he didn’t have it with him but he was James Dean Simmons from Jacksonville, the report states.

The suspect then took off running on foot east on Helvenston as the officer called dispatch to report the traffic stop, according to the report.

After a brief chase, in which the suspect jumped over a fence and then headed south when the officer attempted to cut him off by running around the residence, the officer requested assistance and a perimeter be established as he returned to the car, the report states.

According to the report, when the officer returned to the car, 23-year-old Anastasia Nolan, a passenger in the car and also from Wellborn, had moved to the driver’s seat.

Nolan’s cell phone also was going off with a call from a “Baby Love,” which Nolan admitted was her boyfriend, who she identified as Sperry or “TJ,” the report states.

Nolan also allegedly admitted to drug paraphernalia being present in the car but was “unsure what was in the red bag,” according to the report.

During a subsequent search of the car, which also had three small children in the backseat, a marijuana grinder was found as well as a plastic baggie containing marijuana, a pipe with burnt drug residue and a “bump spoon.” On the floor of the backseat was additional drug packaging material and in the passenger side door handle was a marijuana blunt and a package of rolling papers.

The red book bag, which was on the front floorboard, had a strong odor of marijuana and it contained three larger freezer bags of marijuana and a black zippered container, the report states.

Inside the black container was a tube with more than six grams of methamphetamine; another tube containing three grams of cocaine, which was divided into three small baggies; a digital scale with drug residue as well as three more bags of marijuana, a lighter and empty bags ready for packaging. A plastic baggie that held 10 Xanax pills was also found, the report states.

Also found in the bag was a loaded .40-caliber handgun and two additional loaded magazines.

Shortly after noon, Sperry was found at a residence on Darrow Avenue inside the perimeter that had been established and taken into custody, later allegedly admitting to smoking marijuana but denying knowledge of the contents of the bag, claiming it belonged to a friend that he did not want to “snitch on.”

After a friend arrived to take care of the children, Nolan was also arrested.

Nolan was charged with marijuana possession, marijuana possession with intent to sell, possession of a controlled substance without a prescription, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of methamphetamine and crimes against person – culpable/negligence/exposure to harm.

Sperry was charged with marijuana possession, marijuana possession with intent to sell, possession of methamphetamine, possession of a controlled substance without a prescription, possession of drug paraphernalia, crimes against person – culpable/negligence/exposure to harm, resist officer – obstruct without violence, possession of weapon or ammo by a convicted felon, possession of cocaine, false ID given to LEO and driving while license suspended.