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Three weeks before Christmas, he decided to send letters to only 38 sheriff's employees. Within days of the mailing, he met with some of them and decided to let eight stay on. Some friends noticed that Derwin had a lot on his mind, too distracted by the tasks ahead to act like himself. On Friday, Dec. 15, Brown finished a sheriff's training course an hour south in Forsyth. He invited his friends to drive down to watch his graduation. Over lunch, he announced he was having an impromptu celebration later that night at his favorite restaurant. They were...
...task force of detectives from four agencies, including the FBI, has yet to solve the Derwin Brown mystery. "We're not ignoring the possibility that he was killed for some reason other than he was going to be sheriff," says the new interim sheriff, Tom Brown, who is not related to Derwin. "We don't want to get into the possibility of narrowing our investigation too much and missing something...
...Interim sheriff Tom Brown and others confirm that the investigation is now focusing primarily on the jail's finances. Forensic auditors are examining contracts and other records related to the private companies servicing the jail, which, with 3,750 inmates, is one of the largest east of the Mississippi. Among the most scrutinized are the companies holding contracts to provide health care, maintenance and food service at the jail...
Investigators and auditors are also looking into the blatantly improper arrangements between the sheriff and seven bail-bonding companies that have been allowed to set up shop inside the jail without paying rent. State law prohibits bondsmen from having such access. Investigators are also looking for possible wrongdoing at three of the bonding companies, including one formerly owned by civil rights pioneer Hosea Williams. Apart from not paying rent, the companies may have been allowed by former sheriffs to operate without posting $150,000 cash or property bonds, contrary to jail policy. After being sworn in, Derwin planned to evict...
Then there is Sid Dorsey, the outgoing sheriff. He says he's beginning to feel like a suspect, especially since prosecutors announced that a grand jury will look into allegations that he used on-duty sheriff's deputies to work at his private security business and allowed jail inmates to work at the neighborhood improvement organization of his wife Sherry, an Atlanta councilwoman...