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CONVICTED. SIDNEY DORSEY, 62, ex-sheriff of DeKalb County, Ga.; of masterminding the December 2000 murder of his elected successor, Derwin Brown; in Albany, Ga. Prosecutors said the defeated Dorsey, who was also charged with racketeering, wanted to be reinstated and thus hired hit men to gun down Brown, who had promised to clean up department corruption (see TIME, Feb. 5, 2001). Dorsey faces a mandatory life sentence...
CHARGED. SIDNEY DORSEY, 61, former sheriff of De Kalb County, Ga.; with the December 2000 murder of his successor, Derwin Brown; in Decatur, Ga. Dorsey has denied involvement in the fatal shooting, investigated by TIME in February, saying the gunmen who ambushed Brown in his driveway should get the death penalty. Two weeks ago, a former Dorsey confidant and deputy revived the stalled investigation by cooperating with prosecutors...
Cuffy, 35, had attracted police attention long before the Sunday shoot-out. He had been deputy to Sidney Dorsey, the sheriff whom Derwin Brown defeated in a bitter fight last year. (Cuffy was also employed by Dorsey's private security firm.) Once, during the campaign, Brown told aides he had seen Cuffy lurking in a dark SUV, shadowing him as he discussed corruption in the DeKalb jail with a county official. Cuffy was one of 38 employees that the reform-minded Brown planned to fire once he took office. Cuffy had doubled his take-home...
...Cuffy's home, where they found a 9-mm handgun, two boxes of ammunition, a pawn receipt for a gun, a recommendation letter from Dorsey, and Cuffy's passport. But they have not labeled Cuffy--or anyone--a suspect. Nor have they found the semiautomatic weapon used to kill Derwin Brown, a weapon very similar to the guns in Sunday's shoot-out. Still, they have filed obstruction-of-justice charges against Cuffy's roommate David Ramsey and another Dorsey loyalist, Melvin Walker, for allegedly misleading investigators about Cuffy's alibi. Within days of those arrests, the armed men descended...
...meantime, DeKalb County finally has a sheriff. A special election last Tuesday gave the office to interim sheriff Thomas Brown (no relation to Derwin Brown), who took 81% of the vote in a field of seven candidates. At his victory party, Thomas Brown's security cordon was as thick as a President's. Derwin Brown's widow Phyllis, who wants to open a youth club in her slain husband's honor, says that since the shoot-out, she and her family have applied for gun permits. Says Ron Brown, her brother-in-law: "Obviously, people are getting nervous somewhere...