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Drug suspect uses baby as shield from investigators
Two arrested after incident
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Leon Tremaine Roberson
Police said a man fleeing from law enforcement officers appeared to use his infant child as a shield during a drug-related incident early Friday morning. He and a woman now face charges for child cruelty and drugs. Statesboro-Bulloch County Crime Suppression Team Investigator Marcus Nesmith and Investigator Ben Lienhard responded to an apartment complex on Old Riggs Mill Road just after midnight early Friday morning after receiving a second drug complaint from neighbors of Leon Tremaine Roberson, 20, and Devyn Maria Turner, 18, both tenants at the apartment complex, reports stated.
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