Charleston City Councilman Kwadjo Campbell is in jail after his second run-in with police in less than a week, prompting Mayor Joe Riley to call for his resignation.

Campbell should resign until his legal problems are resolved, Riley said in a statement Friday. If Campbell doesn't resign and is convicted on criminal charges pending in Charleston and Summerville, the mayor will "immediately urge City Council to exercise its duty to expel him."

Charleston police arrested the 33-year-old Campbell late Thursday on charges of possession of a stolen motor vehicle and a second offense of possession of marijuana. The first charge likely will be dismissed because the car's owner told authorities Friday he'd forgotten that he loaned the car to a mutual friend of his and Campbell's.

Riley's statement was released before Charleston police detectives knew that the owner of the car no longer wanted to report it stolen or press charges. The change in circumstance didn't sway Riley's position about Campbell.

"The fact that the car wasn't stolen doesn't change the fact that over the last few days, council member Campbell has been stopped by one police department in our area for driving a car with his license suspended and a few days later arrested for being in possession of marijuana," Riley said.

A traffic stop Saturday night in Summerville led police there to obtain warrants for Campbell's arrest on charges of driving with a suspended license and giving false information to police.

Charleston police arrested Campbell about 11:38 p.m. Thursday after officers noticed a car with a Florida license plate slowly circling the block in the area of Sheppard Street. Officers checked the tag on the 1999 Nissan Altima and learned it was reported stolen Tuesday from a Publix grocery store parking lot in Gainesville, Fla.

The car key was on the same ring as Campbell's house key, police said. He told officers "we were at the funeral, but we got separated. The car was in the driveway and I had the key, so I took it." The police report didn't clarify that statement.

The car was driven by a Ladson woman and Campbell was the front-seat passenger, Charleston police said. Officers found a "blunt," a hand-rolled cigar containing marijuana, in the center console of the car and within arm's reach of Campbell, according to the police report.

The driver, Carmen Ami Jennings, 24, told police the blunt belonged to Campbell. The councilman had told her to roll the blunt for him, according to the sworn statement Riley said he saw. Campbell's attorney, Danny Martin Jr., said Friday afternoon Campbell denies having any drugs in his possession.

Jennings was charged with first-offense driving under suspension, police said. Officers arrested Campbell on the charge of second-offense possession of marijuana because his criminal history included a 1995 arrest and subsequent guilty plea on a charge of simple possession of marijuana.

Campbell was also arrested on the charge of possession of a stolen motor vehicle, but the owner of the car told authorities Friday he made a mistake when he reported the Altima stolen.

Stuart Soto, 43, of Gainesville told Alachua County, Fla., sheriff's deputies he'd been taking strong medication and it caused him to forget he loaned his car to Ajani Ofunniyin, 52, of Gainesville, so Ofunniyin could attend a funeral in South Carolina. Soto told the deputies he didn't remember loaning the car until he was notified it had been found in Charleston.

Campbell already had been to bond court Friday afternoon when Charleston police got word that Soto didn't want to report his car stolen "due to his memory loss." Magistrate Linda Lombard had set Campbell's bail at $10,000 on the possession of a stolen motor vehicle charge and $1,000 on the drug charge. Charleston police Sgt. David Fair notified Lombard of the change in circumstance, and she amended those to personal recognizance bonds.

Solicitor Ralph Hoisington said the charge of possession of a stolen motor vehicle will likely be dismissed at a preliminary hearing, if Campbell's attorney requests a hearing. Otherwise, it will be several weeks before the case is assigned to someone in the solicitor's office and dismissed.

Campbell was to surrender Monday afternoon at the Summerville Police Department to be booked on the charges filed there. His arrest Thursday night in Charleston changed those plans. Campbell remained in the Charleston County Jail late Friday because Summerville police have outstanding warrants for his arrest. Campbell probably will have a bond hearing today at Municipal Court in Summerville.

Summerville police originally cited Campbell for driving without a license because he identified himself as Kwadjo Campbell and there was no record he had a driver's license. Police later discovered Campbell's license was issued in his legal name, Larry Roy Campbell, and it was suspended.