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Feb. 18—Among many reforms newly-elected Sheriff Craig Owens detailed at a recent Cobb Democratic Party function were an audit of his predecessor's books and his handling of inmate deaths. Owens ...
(The Center Square) – Cobb County Sheriff Craig Owens' wife cannot eat mayonnaise on her Whopper but the sheriff cannot "stomach distasteful" speech, according to a federal lawsuit. David ...
Jul. 24—A man wanted in Cobb County for cruelty to children, among other charges, was one of three fugitives arrested Friday by the fugitive unit of the Cobb County Sheriff's Office and the U.S ...
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the U.S. state of Georgia.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 628 law enforcement agencies employing 26,551 sworn police officers, about 274 for each 100,000 residents.
Cobb County is a county in the U.S. state of Georgia, ... (2,200,000 m 2) of office space. ... County residents also elect a sheriff, district attorney, probate court ...
On December 15, 2000, former sheriff's deputy Melvin Walker shot Brown twelve times with a TEC-9 handgun in front of his home in Decatur. [3] Brown was murdered only three days before he was due to be sworn in as sheriff; DeKalb County Director of Public Safety Thomas Brown assumed control of the post in an interim fashion pending a special election to be held in March 2001.
The new DA had most recently worked under Willis at the Fulton County DA’s office and prior to that was legal counsel to the Cobb County Sheriff. Her office did not respond to a request for comment.
Some counties that previously had both a county police force and a sheriff's office have merged the two, leaving the sheriff in command of the unified force, as the sheriff derives his power directly from the constitution; the most prominent example of such a merger is the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department which is actually led by the ...