On Sept. 28, 2023, the Savannah Police Department (SPD) terminated a corporal after an internal affairs investigation found that he had a relationship with a convicted felon, according to documents obtained via open records request by the Savannah Morning News.
The internal affairs investigation, launched in August 2023, stemmed from allegations that the former officer, Darryl Repress, was having a relationship with a woman, whom he also was using as a confidential informant.
According to the allegations in the internal probe, Repress sent the woman another detective’s body-worn camera (BWC) footage to get information about the unsolved 2014 murder of “Baby Kiki” Kiaja Smalls. The probe also detailed allegations that Repress provided the woman information about an April 2023 operation in the Waters Avenue corridor that targeted associates of Tyquian Bowman, better known as rapper Quando Rondo, allowing one man to avoid apprehension. During the same period, the probe found that Repress was buying stolen clothes from the woman and buying gifts for her.