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Dougherty Co. police continue investigation on child locked in room
Dougherty Co. police continuing investigation on child locked in room By Molly Godley | February 19, 2021 at 8:08 PM EST - Updated February 19 at 8:40 PM
ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - Dougherty County police are working to find answers after five children were taken from a home, where they said child abuse was happening.
Investigators say they will continue to conduct interviews and find out more background information to try and find a motive.
“We don’t always get those in crimes against children cases, but that’s the goal is to find if there was a motive and what was it,” said Detective Cpl. Calvin Hodge Jr.
Phone scam costs Dougherty Co. resident nearly $10K
DCP Investigate Almost $10K Phone Scam By Bobby Poitevint | January 26, 2021 at 12:31 AM EST - Updated January 26 at 12:35 AM
ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - Scammers are at it again in Dougherty County and it cost one victim almost 10-thousand dollars.
Dougherty County Police (DCP) are looking into a scam they’ve labeled as theft by deception.
According to a DCP shift report from Sunday, someone filed a complaint that they were scammed out of $9,700 by someone posing as an FBI agent.
Unfortunately, scams like this still happen.
“Supposedly had a rental car that was in his name in San Antonio, Texas that had blood and drugs in it. Now what amount of money was gonna do to fix that? I don’t know,” said Sgt. Ted Wertz with the Dougherty County Police Department.