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SE Georgia detectives discover body is sex doll

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It seemed like a major crime for Allenhurst, a town of less than 700 people in Southeast Georgia. A female body was spotted by the railroad tracks. Liberty County deputies gathered at the scene and waited for the coroner.

It took a while before they realized the joke was on them: The corpse was actually a sex doll.

Detective Mike Albritton said officers found the female humanoid Tuesday afternoon, WSAV-TV reported. Under department policy, deputies can’t touch a dead body until the coroner arrives.

Once the coroner came to the scene, detectives began checking the body for injuries and immediatel­y realized it was a sex doll. Detectives said it was anatomical­ly correct, with realistic features and was fully dressed.

It’s unclear whether authoritie­s will investigat­e. Albritton said he’s never encountere­d a incident like this.

ALLENHURST — Atlanta man dies after shot by police during

foot chase Sheriff fires deputy for leaking informatio­n AUGUSTA —

A Georgia sheriff has fired a deputy after the deputy changed his story and admitted leaking documents to a television reporter.

Richmond County Sheriff Richard Roundtree fired Marlon Campbell on Tuesday, saying he had conducted himself in ways unbecoming to being a deputy and violated his obligation to be truthful.

A disciplina­ry report accuses Campbell of releasing “numerous” incident reports, internal documents and videos to WRDW-TV reporter Meredith Anderson.

The Augusta TV station and Anderson declined to confirm that they had received informatio­n from Campbell.

“As an investigat­ive reporter, I have numerous sources in numerous agencies. Sometimes, they reach out to me. Sometimes, I reach out to them,” Anderson wrote in a tweet. “I do not divulge any of my sources.”

A statement from the sheriff’s office said it would not have been required by law to release some of the materials under Georgia’s open records act.

“Informatio­n contained in reports and internal documents, if disseminat­ed improperly, may impair our ability to successful­ly prosecute cases,” Sgt. William Mccarthy wrote in the disciplina­ry report.

The sheriff’s internal affairs unit interviewe­d Campbell on Monday and he denied releasing any informatio­n, specifical­ly denying that he had sent a screenshot of a warrant applicatio­n. The sheriff’s office says a polygraph exam showed “deception at a high level” from Campbell. After the polygraph test, Campbell was reintervie­wed and admitted to sending the screenshot. The sheriff’s office said a check of Campbell’s email showed that in June, he sent Anderson a spreadshee­t of patrol car accident statistics and an incident report containing informatio­n about a juvenile that wasn’t redacted.

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