DEARING, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – The Georgia Bureau of Investigation and state fire marshal’s office are investigating after someone broke into a McDuffie County Sheriff’s Office substation in Dearing, stole items, and set the building on fire.
Smoke was seen coming from the building around 5 a.m. Wednesday, according to Pat Morgan, Special Agent in Charge of the GBI’s Thomson field office.
For more than three years, 12 On Your Side Investigates has been digging into allegations surrounding Burke County Sheriff Alfonzo Williams — examining spending habits, travel expenses, disappearing cases, and state investigations that remain publicly unresolved.
Morgan said it appears a burglary took place and that the suspect set the fire in an attempt to cover it up…