Kennesaw police chief suspended amid investigation

KENNESAW - Kennesaw Police Chief Dewaine Wilson has been suspended by the city amid a state investigation. <br> <br> The Georgia Bureau of Investigation sought to answer ``questions over some purchases&#39;&#39; -- posed by the city manager&#39;s office in late July, GBI spokesman John Bankhead told the Marietta Daily Journal in Wednesday&#39;s editions. <br> <br> Bankhead would not disclose any details of the investigation. <br> <br> Wilson was suspended without pay August fifth -- two days before GBI investigators turned over their findings to Cobb County District Attorney Patrick Head. <br> <br> A spokeswoman for Head did not immediately return phone calls from The Associated Press. <br> <br> Assistant Police Chief Tim Callahan was placed in charge of the department during Wilson&#39;s suspension. Wilson has been with the department for 25 years.

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