Police question and release man in suspicious white van

DUBLIN - Sheriff&#39;s deputies in central Georgia questioned a man in a white van with Virginia plates Thursday after getting a phone call from a suspicious neighbor. <br> <br> People all over the country have been looking for a white van since police said it might be involved in the Washington, D.C., area sniper shootings that have left nine people dead and two wounded. <br> <br> A caller from Dudley, 110 miles southeast of Atlanta, said a suspicious van was parked on the shoulder of U.S. Highway 80 in Laurens County. <br> <br> It turned out to be a surveillance van, with a small camera on the roof, operated by a private detective looking into a worker&#39;s compensation claim. <br> <br> The man was not arrested, and police would not disclose his name. <br> <br> Police contacted his employer, a Virginia company that verified his identity. Laurens County sheriff&#39;s Major Carson Knight said a criminal background check found nothing suspicious. <br> <br> Knight said, ``He was in Alabama and Georgia during the time of the shootings and had receipts to prove it. They checked him out good. He was just doing his job.&#39;&#39;

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