A Cherryvale man is arrested on drug charges after a traffic stop.

At around 1:50am, Cherryvale Police Officers and Montgomery County Deputies conducted a traffic stop on a 2005 Gray Toyota Sienna for an individual driving while suspended. During the attempted traffic stop, the Toyota fled Officers and the driver threw something out the window. The driver, later stopped at a residence in Cherryvale, was identified as 46-year-old Lawrence Hayes.

Officers recovered the items that were thrown out of the vehicle. Those items included a clear baggie containing methamphetamine and a bag of syringes. Hayes was taken into custody and transported to the Montgomery County Department of Corrections and booked on recommended charges of driving while suspended, fleeing and eluding and possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia.