[GA] Fired, rehired Macon Police Officer Wood resigned after allegedly harassing wife

From December 9, 2010 News:

[Excerpt] ...[Macon Police] Officer Dennis Benjamin Wood was accused of simple battery domestic violence, theft by taking and cruelty to children in the 2nd degree in 2008, according to a Macon police report. He got his job back last year after the charges were dropped, documents say. According to those documents, the charges came after several reprimands in 2008 that included missing court, going AWOL and failing to do an incident report. Personnel records show that Wood resigned a few months after he got his job back. They say he resigned after he allegedly made harassing calls to his wife... [Full article here]

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• [GA] Officer Wood wife battery, child cruelty, and theft charges - ...Dennis Benjamin Wood, 31, of Gray, has been charged with misdemeanor cruelty to children, misdemeanor theft and family violence-related simple battery, according to Bibb County jail records...
• [GA] Macon Georgia Police riddle: If you REHIRE an officer with twice-dropped violence related charges - what do you get? - "...This is not the first time that [Macon Police] Officer Dennis Wood has been arrested. He was arrested back in 2008 for Domestic violence because he hit his wife... and the City of Macon Police allowed him to resign, but rehired him..." Prior to being hired, 32-year-old Dennis Benjamin Wood, of Macon, admitted he was charged with carrying a gun onto school grounds...

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