ALLEN, Ky. — A Laurel County man’s insistence that police were looking for him likely played a role in his arrest on drug trafficking charges.

A Floyd County sheriff’s deputy was called to Allen, after someone reported finding drugs on the ground beside of Old Dwale Road.

When a deputy arrived on the scene, he found a car parked on the side of the road, and the driver — identified as Kevin Wayne Quillen, 49, of London — got out and asked if the deputy was looking for him. When the deputy said he wasn’t, Quillen reportedly insisted he was, because he was certain a woman had called the police after they got into an argument. The deputy again told him he wasn’t and asked him to move his car because he needed to get by.

Quillen reportedly went back to his car and started it up, then shut it off and went back to the deputy to ask if he was sure he wasn’t looking for him. The deputy told him a third time that he wasn’t looking for him, and Quillen moved his car 400 feet up the road and began packing items from a driveway into his car.

The deputy then found 39 grams of meth and a set of scales on the ground across the road from where Quillen had been parked. After collecting the evidence and speaking with the person who reported it, the deputy had to drive further up the road to turn around.

As he passed Quillen’s car, it took off at a high rate of speed. Meanwhile, a woman came running up to the deputy, saying Quillen had stolen her phone.

The deputy caught Quillen at Stumbo Park, and he reportedly admitted taking the phone because the woman had taken money from him.

K-9 Zoe was brought in and alerted on Quillen’s car, indicating the drugs found on Old Dwale Road had been in the car.

Quillen was arrested on a single count of meth trafficking. He is being held on a $50,000 dollar cash bond.