Pendergrass Police Chief Rob Russell said Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents are examining evidence against Officer Bill Garner. Russell said the officer is accused of arresting a passenger in a car for having an open container of alcohol when no open container was present.
The driver of the car was arrested on a DUI charge and a warrant out of Hall County charging him with rape.
Authorities said the evidence includes a video from the camera in a Jefferson Police officer's cruiser, which arrived as backup during the traffic stop last month on U.S. 129.
Jefferson Police Chief Joe Wirthman said Tuesday the Jefferson officer showed his supervisor the video. Wirthman reviewed the video and turned it over to Piedmont Judicial Circuit District Attorney Richard Bridgeman on Feb. 25. Two days later, the district attorney asked GBI agents to conduct an investigation.
Wirthman declined to say what he saw on the video that prompted him to turn it over to authorities.
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