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Davidson County Sheriff's Deputy Accused Of Robbing A Bank

WFAE | By Gwendolyn Glenn

Published February 7, 2018 at 4:31 PM EST

Jeff Athey was fired from his job as a Davidson County Sheriff's Department after being arrested and charged with robbery.

A Davidson County sheriff's deputy was arrested after being accused of robbing a bank in neighboring Rowan County Tuesday afternoon. Jeff Athey is charged with robbery with dangerous weapons.

According to media reports, a man, believed to be Athey, walked into an F&M Bank in Rockwell and demanded cash. He was apprehended soon afterwards and placed under arrest. The cash was recovered.

Athey has been fired from his job. Davidson County Sheriff David Grice said he was "as shocked and appalled as anyone else at Mr. Athey's behavior." Few details have been released about Athey or why he allegedly robbed the bank. No one was injured in the robbery.

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Gwendolyn Glenn

Gwendolyn is an award-winning journalist who has covered a broad range of stories on the local and national levels. Her experience includes producing on-air reports for National Public Radio and she worked full-time as a producer for NPR’s All Things Considered news program for five years. She worked for several years as an on-air contract reporter for CNN in Atlanta and worked in print as a reporter for the Baltimore Sun Media Group, The Washington Post and covered Congress and various federal agencies for the Daily Environment Report and Real Estate Finance Today. Glenn has won awards for her reports from the Maryland-DC-Delaware Press Association, SNA and the first-place radio award from the National Association of Black Journalists.

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