South Ga. jailer arrested for pawning cop radio
Morris News Service
Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010 5:56 AM
KINGSLAND, Ga. -- Gerri Shiree Waters ended up on the wrong side of the bars at the Camden County jail where until mid-afternoon Wednesday she worked as a corrections officer for about 18 months.
Sheriff Tommy Gregory fired Waters, 37, as Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents arrested her on felony theft by taking and misdemeanor theft by deception charges for pawning a handheld Sheriff's Office walkie-talkie at the Pawn Place in Kingsland pawn shop.
Waters is accused of stealing the 16-channel radio valued at $750 and pawning it for about $50 cash. GBI agents recovered it during the five-hour investigation Wednesday.
Gregory asked the GBI to investigate when the pawn shop owner alerted him that morning upon discovering the walkie-talkie in his store's inventory, said Mike McDaniel, special agent in charge of the GBI's Kingsland office.
A store employee had taken in the radio for pawn earlier without realizing it was Sheriff's Office property, McDaniel said.
Because the investigation is ongoing, McDaniel declined comment about the possible motive in the case.
Maj. Larry Bruce, a Sheriff's Office spokesman, said an inventory was under way to determine whether any other department equipment might have been stolen or pawned.
They really did throw her in jail, Something you would not have seen under the Smith lead SO.
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