Cody Wood, Commerce cop, repeatedly charged innocent drivers with DUI. "I just feel you're on something"
COMMERCE, Ga - For nearly a year, the Commerce Police Department charged innocent people with driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol who insisted all along there was no evidence to make an arrest.
One of them passed breathalyzer tests 10 times either in the field or at the jail, yet he was still charged with drunk driving.
Cody Wood, the officer involved in all the arrests, is on paid administrative leave while the city reviews his work.
When reached at his home, Wood had no comment on the investigation.
But the people he wrongly arrested sure have something to say.
"Thought I was coming down here to have dinner with my friends, listen to some people sing karaoke and then go home," Aaron Cash said while sitting outside a popular Commerce bar. "But apparently he had other ideas."
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"He said ‘I just feel like you’re on something,’" McDuffie recounted Wood saying. "So I’m going to jail because of someone’s feeling."
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/commerce-officer-repeatedly-charged-innocent-drivers-with-dui
Aaron Cash, one of those arrested, was charged even after passing multiple breathalyzer tests.
"I'm about to lose my job, too," Cash could be heard saying on the body cam footage after his erroneous arrest.
His case, along with others, was eventually dismissed, but the question of accountability lingers as Officer Wood faces no immediate disciplinary action for the wrongful arrests.
The controversy has led to a larger review of Wood's DUI cases, with the City of Commerce calling in the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) to assure transparency.
https://hoodline.com/2024/02/commerce-police-officer-suspected-of-wrongful-dui-charges-on-leave-amid-inquiry/
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