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DeKalb County, Georgia, Sheriff’s Captain Charged with Encouraging Excessive Force at County Jail and Obstruction of Justice

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 26, 2015.  Leonard Dreyer, a captain with the DeKalb County, Georgia, Sheriff’s Office, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in the Northern District of Georgia on charges of encouraging Dwight Hamilton, a former corrections officer, to use excessive force against an inmate at the DeKalb County Jail and for attempting to obstruct justice by persuading officers who witnessed the incident to write false reports.  Dreyer was also charged with obstructing justice by making false statements to an FBI agent investigating the allegations. 

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